Description
A Qajar gold-damascened steel processional standard (`alam), Iran, 19th century, the engraved decoration with a figure of Imam `Ali, Hasan and Husayn to his sides, the cross-section surmounted with small urns, birds and three tapered panels, engraved with portraits of Imam `Ali, Hasan and Husayn, gold -damascened with calligraphic inscriptions,...