AN ARAB SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICK, MOSUL, IRAQ, FIRST THIRD 14TH CENTURY

AN ARAB SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICK
MOSUL, IRAQ, FIRST THIRD 14TH CENTURY
The body decorated with three cartouches with thuluth inscription on scrolling ground, divided by roundels containing figures riding camels, a band of stylised leaf-motifs above and below, the shoulder decorated with scrolling arabesque interspersed with roundels with interlaced geometric motif, the neck with stylised palmettes in roundels on an interlaced geometric ground, some deliberate rubbing to figural roundels, traces of inlay remaining
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high

Provenance

Mark Dineley (1901-1975), thence by descent until the previous owner