Title: Seal Ring
Date: late 15th–16th century
Location: Iran
Materials: black jade, wheel cut; mounted in silver ring with gilding and niello inlay
Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.2cm (seal)
Accession Number: TLS 2786
Other Notes:
At the centre of the seal is, ‘Piri (?), a slave of Sultan Murad’; around it is a Persian couplet. The bezel bears a benedictory text in Persian, and on its underside, in square Kufic (negative) and repeated twice, ‘Ya, Ya ‘Ali’.
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