A SILVER-INLAID BRASS BOWL

Lot 41
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 1033081
Lot 41 | A SILVER-INLAID BRASS BOWL
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
A SILVER-INLAID BRASS BOWL

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



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