FIVE SMALL SILVER BOXES
Iran, 20th century

Comprising a small circular box, the domed lid with a six-petal raised motif containing floral arrangements, the side with birds surrounding floral cartouches, the base engraved 'Qalam Nasrullah Mohazzeb' and stamped in the shape of a Persian 5, 4.4cm high, 7cm diam., 116gr.; two further circular pill boxes, one finely worked with birds and flowers, 2.5cm high, 5.8cm diam., 63gr., and one with elegant banqueting scenes on the base and lid, the sides with scrolling vines, 2.6cm high, 4.6cm diam., 54gr.; two hexagonal miniature Quran holders for talismanic armbands, one with a domed lid, engraved with an invocation to God, The Judge of Needs, the sides with further invocations to God, employing four of his 99 attributes, 2.4cm high, 4.7cm wide, 24gr.; and another, the lid with Quran Sura 112, the sides with prayers and invocations to Ali, 0.9cm high, 4.3cm wide, 30gr.