A FARS BRASS BOWL

Lot 31
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Prix de départ
£ 15 000
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Lot 31 | A FARS BRASS BOWL
Valeur estimée
£ 15 000 – 20 000
A FARS BRASS BOWL

SOUTH IRAN, LATE 13TH OR EARLY 14TH CENTURY

The body decorated with a central band of cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions against a scrolling vegetal ground alternating with roundels containing falconers on horseback, a band of braided decoration and one of foliate meander above, palmette and dart decoration below, a later owner's mark in a cartouche near the base, the interior with fish and birds around a central sunburst, no silver remaining

4 ¾in. (12cm.) high; 11 3⁄8in. (29cm.) diam.





Provenance

Bernard Bottet (1900-71) and his son Bertrand Bottet (1924-94) (numbered 26 on page 58 of the Bottet inventory),

Objets de hasard. Collection Bottet et a divers amateurs, Encheres Rive Gauche, 26 March 2012, lot 151



Inscribed

'Perpetual glory and prosperity and happiness and well-being and health and grace and kindness and ease and victory and wealth'
An owner's name in the long narrow panel, 'It's owner Shams al-Din ibn Taj al-Din Farsi'
The smaller owner's name, 'Its owner Husayn'



Further details

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