Astrolabe Catalogue

 

Date 1703/4 (A.H. 1115)
Maker ‘Abd al-A’imma
Place Iṣfahān
Material Brass
Acquisition Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924
Accession 1924-0/part

Provenance

Evans bought it from J. Lowe, a London dealer, in April 1922. An inscription records that it was originally made for Rustam Khān Dunbalī, a courtier of the shah of Persia.
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