A mid-20^th century Iraqi silver and niello cruet on tray, circa 1950

The tray of rectangular form with canted corners and twin handles, nielloed with a scene of Imam Ali al-Hadi shrine in Samarra. The cruet comprising a salt, mustard pot, with spoon and a pepper pot, each of tapering hexagonal form, nielloed with scenes of camels, mudhif, the Taq Kasra (Ruins of Ctesiphon), the Abu Hanifa al in Nu'man, Baghdad, the Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu, The Great Mosque of Samarra and the Lion of Babylon. Signed to the front of tray only Jamel Galdoon.

Length – 16.4 cm / 6.45 inches

Weight – 165 grams / 5.3 ozt