*AN ENGRAVED BRASS TABLE TOP PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Qajar Iran, late 19th century Of circular shape, with reinforced rim, the table top finely engraved with a circle of eight polylobed cartouches portraying the Persian Kings of the Past, each indicated by their name in naskh,amidst a triumph of intricate vegetal tendrils, rosettes, full floral bloom and abstract festoons made of herons and mythical beasts, more decorative cartouches to the centre and border with rural landscape views populated by animals, the base embellished with pierced and engraved vegetal motifs,51.8cm diam.