An Ivory and Tortoiseshell Qur'an stand and a carved wood Qur'an stand, India, 18th century

of rectangular form the exterior decorated with ivory openwork plaques of floral arabesques enclosed by stained ivory and checkerboard borders, the bracketed legs and interior veneered with tortoiseshell; the other carved with palmette feet and crenellated top the exterior decorated with radial medallions encircled by pearl and zigzag borders

areas of lifting and splitting to ivory fretwork, abrasions to tortoiseshell; the other with losses to feet and abrasions throughout, as viewed
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