A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales, Persia, 19th Century

of rectangular form with hinged lid, containing a set of steel balances and brass pans and nine weights of various sizes, the box decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays and perching birds, the border of the lid with a series of inscription-filled cartouches
13 x 18.3 x 2.8 cm.

Provenance
Private UK collection.

Inscriptions: 'After having put together the letter of our sins They took it and weighed it against [our] deeds'.

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