A Qajar coco de mer Kashkul by Mirza Ghulam Husayn Shirazi
Persia, 19th Centuryof typical form, profusely engraved with a large lobed inscription-filled cartouche to the base terminating in an inscription-filled cartouche of palmette form to each end, all on a ground of foliate interlace, the shoulder with a band of inscription, the top with further inscriptions
24 cm. long注脚Inscriptions: Qur'an, chapters II (al-Baqarah), verses 255 and 256; XLVIII (al-Fath), verse 1; LXI (al-Fath), part of verse 13; the nada 'ali quatrain and the name 'Ali in mirrored form, signed 'The work of Mirza Ghulam Husayn Shirazi'.