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NORTH EAST PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY
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A KHORASSAN COPPER INLAID SMALL BRONZE BOTTLE
NORTH EAST PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY
The body formed by a complicated geometric form based on a dodecahedron, each of the twelve pentagonal faces filled with a copper inalid star, recessed panels filled with scrolling designs on a stippled ground between the arms, on five ball feet, the uppermost face rising in the centre to a banded small heptagonally faceted mouth with ring collars, the largest engraved with a brief benedictory naskh inscription, slight damamges to the underside
3in. (9cm.) high
NORTH EAST PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY
The body formed by a complicated geometric form based on a dodecahedron, each of the twelve pentagonal faces filled with a copper inalid star, recessed panels filled with scrolling designs on a stippled ground between the arms, on five ball feet, the uppermost face rising in the centre to a banded small heptagonally faceted mouth with ring collars, the largest engraved with a brief benedictory naskh inscription, slight damamges to the underside
3in. (9cm.) high