EARLY 20TH CENTURY IRAQI SILVER AND NIELLO OBJECTS Of compre...

Estimate

£750 - £1,000

EARLY 20TH CENTURY IRAQI SILVER AND NIELLO OBJECTS
Of compressed circular form, raised on a pedestal circular foot. The sides adorned with finely executed niello decoration, featuring the Tomb of Ezra, boatmen in gufa, dhow sailing boats, and palm trees. Signed to the side: دخيل عمل (Amal’e Dakheel | the work of Dakheel).
Together with:
Another salt of hemispherical form, raised on three short ball feet, decorated with niello scenes depicting the shrine of Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar in the city of Al-Kadhimiya, a sheep, a pair of hunters in a boat shooting at a boar, and two sailors in a mashoof boat. Possibly signed Omara, Abed Al Ghani.
Also with an unsigned pepper pot, of double trapezoid form, set upon a square base with a screw thread, the niello decoration featuring unusual scenes including a mudhif.

Height of Dakheel example – 3.6 cm / 1.4 inches
Pepper height – 5.8 cm / 2 Weight – 114 grams / 3.67 ozt.25 inches