Description
Rare pastry or confectionery scoop, Iran qâjâr, early 19th century Damascus steel shovel inlaid with gold and engraved with a medallion with a double-appendix decorated with a capridium, a frieze of palmettes on the edge. The riveted handle inlaid with gold, finished with a turned ivory pommel. Length : 26,8 cm ; gross weight : 143 g Some wear of the decoration, small crack and some stains on the ivory. Publication: D'ALLEMAGNE Henry-René, Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris, trois mois de voyage en Perse, Tome II, Paris: 1911, plate between pp. 68 and 69. A Qajar Pastry Shovel, Iran, early 19th century Collection of an amateur (lots 93 to 119).
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Rare pastry or confectionery scoop, Iran qâjâr, early 19th century Damascus steel shovel inlaid with gold and engraved with a medallion with a double-appendix decorated with a capridium, a frieze of palmettes on the edge. The riveted handle inlaid with gold, finished with a turned ivory pommel. Length : 26,8 cm ; gross weight : 143 g Some wear of the decoration, small crack and some stains on the ivory. Publication: D'ALLEMAGNE Henry-René, Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris, trois mois de voyage en Perse, Tome II, Paris: 1911, plate between pp. 68 and 69. A Qajar Pastry Shovel, Iran, early 19th century Collection of an amateur (lots 93 to 119).
