A GROUP OF THREE CARNELION MEDALLIONS AND AN AGATE HEARTSHAPED PLAQUE, PERSIA,18TH-19TH CENTURY A GROUP OF THREE CARNELION MEDALLIONS AND AN AGATE HEARTSHAPED PLAQUE, PERSIA,18TH-19TH CENTURY A GROUP OF THREE CARNELION MEDALLIONS AND AN AGATE HEARTSHAPED PLAQUE, PERSIA,18TH-19TH CENTURY

A GROUP OF THREE CARNELION MEDALLIONS AND AN AGATE HEARTSHAPED PLAQUE, PERSIA,18TH-19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3001734

An oval heavy cornelian medallion with silver mounting carved with Imam Ali and his two sons Hasan and Hussein with a lion and an Arabic inscription ‘I am the lion of Allah, I am Ali ibn Abi Talib’. An oval cornelian medallion carved with a large word ‘O, Hafez, safety keeper’ in thuluth script enclosing Quran verse with silver mounting. A heart-shaped agate plaque, inscribed to the centre with the names of Allah in roundels surrounded by tow band of Quran 78 surah Al-Naba 40 verses. An oval cornelian medallion with silver mounting inscribed with Quranic verses, surah Al-Ikhlas, surah Al-Nas and surah Al-Falaq. From left to right: 4.5 by 6 cm., 5 by 6 cm., 6.5 by 8 cm., 5 by 6.5 cm.