QURAN JADE AMULETS, NORTHERN INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003939

Qur’an amulets Northern India, 19th century
Jade plaques, engraved and gilded; silver mounts, cast and engraved, Signed ‘Work of al-Murtada ‘Abdali’
The inscriptions: al-Fatiha, surah al-Kafirun, surah al-Kawthar, surah al-Ikhlas, surah al-Falq and surah an-Nas.
Height 3,7 cm. width 7 cm., thickness 1,9 cm.

PROVENANCE
From a European collection formed in the 1980's.