FOUR SYRIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID WOODEN CHAIRS AND TABLE, SYRIA-DAMASCUS, LATE...

FOUR SYRIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID WOODEN CHAIRS AND TABLE, SYRIA-DAMASCUS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Four Damascus chairs and an octagonal table, pierced and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, decorated and engraved with Islamic Arabic calligraphy.
Arm chair width 58.5 cm., height 109.5 cm., depth 58.5 cm.
Chair: width 45.5 cm., height 110 cm., depth 48.5 cm.
Table: width 52 cm., height 65 cm., depth 52 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private Dutch family, inherited from their grandfather, a tobacco commissioner, who purchased the items in Beirut during his trade trips around 1890.