A KHORASSAN BRASS BASIN with flat base and rounded sides recurved to the fourteen-cusped rim, the centre with a repoussé rosette within an engraved hexagonal lattice enclosing scrolling vine around large stylised birds, brief stylised kufic inscriptions in the smaller panels, the rim with a band of cartouches containing scrolling vine around stylised naskh repeated inscriptions, 13th century

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A KHORASSAN BRASS BASIN with flat base and rounded sides recurved to the fourteen-cusped rim, the centre with a repoussé rosette within an engraved hexagonal lattice enclosing scrolling vine around large stylised birds, brief stylised kufic inscriptions in the smaller panels, the rim with a band of cartouches containing scrolling vine around stylised naskh repeated inscriptions, 13th century
19¾in. (50.2cm.) diam.

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