ID 1033081
Lot 41 | A SILVER-INLAID BRASS BOWL
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
FARS, SOUTH IRAN, SECOND HALF 14TH CENTURY
With rounded base and sloping shoulder rising to a triangular-section rim, the body decorated with a band of poetry in thuluth reserved against arabesque scrolls and alternated with six-lobed roundels, a band of pendants below alternating with roundels, the interior engraved with swimming fish
8 7/8in. (22.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
American collection, by 1971
Further details
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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