A GROUP OF SEVEN SILVER-OVERLAID IRON HORSESHOES OTTOMAN BALKANS AND...
A GROUP OF SEVEN SILVER-OVERLAID IRON HORSESHOES
OTTOMAN BALKANS AND EMPIRE, 19TH CENTURY
Each of oval shape pierced with a central circular hole and eight further holes, four horseshoes decorated with split palmette arabesques, the other two decorated with flowering vines and rosettes, each with an inscription, four of the inscriptions within a cusped medallion, one at the diagonal, one horizontally across the centre, the reverse of each plain
Largest 4 ¾ x 4 1/8in. (12 x 10.5cm.); smallest 4 x 3 ¾in. (10.2 x 8.5cm.)
Provenance
1. güzel söz demir kapuyı açar, 'A beautiful word opens an iron gate'; 2. (Turkish) güzel söz demir kapuyı açar, 'A beautiful word opens an iron gate'; 3. (Turkish), yadigar-i saray-bosna 'Souvenir of Sarajevo'; 4. (Turkish) saray-bosna, ‘Sarajevo’; 5. (Arabic) ittaq sharr man ahsanta ilayhi, ‘Fear the malice of one you have been kind to’; 6. (Arabic), wa-iyyakum hilm al-faras, 'For you too the mildness of the horse!’; 7. (Turkish) bu da geçer yahu, ‘O! This also passes’
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A GROUP OF SEVEN SILVER-OVERLAID IRON HORSESHOES
OTTOMAN BALKANS AND EMPIRE, 19TH CENTURY
Each of oval shape pierced with a central circular hole and eight further holes, four horseshoes decorated with split palmette arabesques, the other two decorated with flowering vines and rosettes, each with an inscription, four of the inscriptions within a cusped medallion, one at the diagonal, one horizontally across the centre, the reverse of each plain
Largest 4 ¾ x 4 1/8in. (12 x 10.5cm.); smallest 4 x 3 ¾in. (10.2 x 8.5cm.)
Provenance
1. güzel söz demir kapuyı açar, 'A beautiful word opens an iron gate'; 2. (Turkish) güzel söz demir kapuyı açar, 'A beautiful word opens an iron gate'; 3. (Turkish), yadigar-i saray-bosna 'Souvenir of Sarajevo'; 4. (Turkish) saray-bosna, ‘Sarajevo’; 5. (Arabic) ittaq sharr man ahsanta ilayhi, ‘Fear the malice of one you have been kind to’; 6. (Arabic), wa-iyyakum hilm al-faras, 'For you too the mildness of the horse!’; 7. (Turkish) bu da geçer yahu, ‘O! This also passes’
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