High Quality Antique Iraqi Islamic Solid Silver Niello Salt Cellar c1925
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High Quality Antique Iraqi Islamic Solid Silver Niello Salt Cellar c1925:
$42.31
High Quality Antique IraqiSolid Silver & Niello Salt Cellar
Skillfully hand made by Mandean silversmiths c1925; The last photo shows the silversmiths at work at that time.
It features fine quality niello work depicting a grand Mosque on the banks of the Euphrates river, date palms, sailing boats and river craft and a shepherd with his flock. It is signed in arabic with the words \'Amarah Fadl\'. Amarah is in the south of Iraq and was a centre of production of these types of wares. Fadl could refer to the name or just the word which means grace or gracious.
The piece rests perfectly on 3 cast legs and has a rim diameter of 47mm.
I think this is the nicest little Iraqi silver salt cellar I have sold and the quality of the nielloed work is superb.
Good Quality and Rare Antique Iraqi solid silver salt cellar; and an amazing example of fine antique Islamic art.
I do combine postage as much as I can
High Quality Antique Iraqi Islamic Solid Silver Niello Salt Cellar c1925:
$42.31