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| Place of origin |
Mount or talisman, round brass plaque engraved on one side with the figure of a lion and a representation of the rayed sun and mystic characters.
Object details
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| Brief description | Middle East, Metalwork. Mount or talisman, round brass plaque engraved on one side with the figure of a lion and a representation of the rayed sun and mystic character, Iran; Islamic. Inter-departmental transfer to MES, RF 2011/1170. |
| Physical description | Mount or talisman, round brass plaque engraved on one side with the figure of a lion and a representation of the rayed sun and mystic characters. |
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| Object history | This object was donated to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A) in 1875. Over the course of 1875, Robert Murdoch Smith (the Museum's agent in Iran) negotiated his first major purchase from Jules Richard, a French art-dealer living in Tehran. This consignment was considerable, with valuable artworks in many media: ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, oil paintings, manuscripts and carved stone. Towards the end of the negotiation, Richard added a further list of objects, which included this one: these were given to the museum for free. |
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| Accession number | 562-1876 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2003 |
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