Lot Essay
The inscriptions around the shoulder are invocations to the twelve Imams. That around the foot is mostly very rubbed but at the end the name Muhammad Tabbakh can be read.
A companion kashkul of copper with smaller dimensions and similar decoration was sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1991, lot 178 while one example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th-18th centuries, London, 1982, p.253f).
For a discussion of the style seen on the Victoria and Albert Museum example and its possible attribution to the Aq Qoyunlu Turkman region, see Allan, J.W.: 'Metalwork of the Turcoman dynasties of Eastern Anatolia and Iran', in Iran, Volume XXIX, 1991, pp.153-159.
A companion kashkul of copper with smaller dimensions and similar decoration was sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1991, lot 178 while one example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th-18th centuries, London, 1982, p.253f).
For a discussion of the style seen on the Victoria and Albert Museum example and its possible attribution to the Aq Qoyunlu Turkman region, see Allan, J.W.: 'Metalwork of the Turcoman dynasties of Eastern Anatolia and Iran', in Iran, Volume XXIX, 1991, pp.153-159.