A LATE MAMLUK COPPER BOWL of conical form with rounded base on short foot, the exterior finely engraved with radiating cusped panels containing diaper pattern alternating with scrolling vine divided by similar plain panels, a broad band around the rim with scrolling vine alternating with elegant thuluth inscriptions on a hatched ground interrupted by diaper roundels alternating with roundels containing the penbox blazon, 15th century, later converted into use as a falconer's drum (base holed, a few small holes around the rim due to conversion)

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A LATE MAMLUK COPPER BOWL of conical form with rounded base on short foot, the exterior finely engraved with radiating cusped panels containing diaper pattern alternating with scrolling vine divided by similar plain panels, a broad band around the rim with scrolling vine alternating with elegant thuluth inscriptions on a hatched ground interrupted by diaper roundels alternating with roundels containing the penbox blazon, 15th century, later converted into use as a falconer's drum (base holed, a few small holes around the rim due to conversion)
8 5/8in. (21.8cm.) diam.

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The inscription can be translated: 'This is what was made for his Excellency the honourable, the elevated, the noble, ......, the Director of the Royal Chancery, ......, of the Islamic Kingdoms, may his situation be made great'.

For a similar copper bowl which lacks the foot and blazons see:
Islamische Kunst, Verborgene Schätze, Berlin 1986, p.108, no.179.

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