INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN -- Sotheby's, a British-founded American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City, has announced highlights of arts
from the Islamic world, which will go under the hammer in its upcoming auction on April 29 in London.The objects include 100 masterpieces
He visited every museum and attended auctions
They include a steel axe dating back to the Safavid era and a cuirass of the Qajar era
five steel plates connected by pairs of hinges, the front two plates now missing, each plate made using five sheets of steel, the central
sheet of watered steel, attached with rivets and hammer welded, the field of each plate overlaid with gold overlaid spiral grapevine motif
including birds, with inscriptions including surah 61 (al-Saff), part of verse 13, in a cartouche at the top of the central plate, and
around the borders are selections from surah 48 (al-Fath), starting with verses 1-5 on the central plate, verses 4-7 on the left hand plate,
and the end of verse 7-verse 9 and verse 15-17 on the right-hand plate.A rare Safavid watered steel axe, Persia, second quarter of the 17th
centuryThe watered steel head finely inlaid with rumi arabesques, the cheeks outlined, set on a later wooden haft with ivory pommel cap and
modern red cord 60.3cm.An Aqqoyunlu Turban Helmet from The Saint Irene Arsenal, Eastern Anatolia or Northwest Persia, Late 15th CenturyThe
base of cylindrical form rising to a swollen band of vertical flutes narrowing to a pointed apex, with indents for eyes and eight suspension
loops for mail, engraved and silver overlaid with inscriptions in a loose thuluth against a spiral vine ground, with Saint Irene arsenal
mark above the right eye, the nose guard plain 33cm.A rare Ottoman wicker shield (Kalkan), Turkey, 17th centuryThe wicker body of domed
circular form, mounted with heavily corroded metal umbo in center, the wicker wrapped in fine red and yellow silk and silver-thread
corresponding loops to reverse, reverse lined with red velvet 58.5cm.A four-plate cuirass (Chahar Ayina) from the Warwick Castle Collection,
north India, 18th centuryConsisting of four convex steel plates, each decorated in the same fashion with a field of neatly arranged chiseled
irises surrounded by a gold overlaid border replicating the iris motif, the front and back plate with six clasps, the side plates with four
clasps, the reverse of each plate padded and lined with contemporary silver-thread silk embroidered with a repeating pattern of polychrome
Kong (1973), India (1992) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012)
program allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids from anywhere in the world.KD
This article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times
