A MID-20TH CENTURY IRAQI SILVER AND NIELLO COMPACT
Omara or Basra, circa 1950 

A MID-20TH CENTURY IRAQI SILVER AND NIELLO COMPACT
Omara or Basra, circa 1950

Of circular form with a hinged lid with a mirror to the interior. The lid with a niello decoration of the Abu Hanifa al in Nu'man, Baghdad within a lozenge, reserved with foliage, the reverse with a dhow sailing boat flanked by palm trees. Signed to the reverse.

Diameter – 7.2 cm / 2.8 inches