A FINE SAFAVID PIERCED STEEL FINIAL from a standard ('alam), the lower ogival panel with cusped floral rim rising through a rectangular panel to a cusped trefoil upper panel with similar smaller knop, the lower panel pierced with finely scrolling spiralling vine around the mirrored inscription 'ya 'Ali', the rectangular panel with symmetrical arabesque interlace, the upper trefoil panel similarly pierced to the lower with the mirrored inscription 'ya muhammad', circa 1600 (negligible corrosion and pitting) traces of brass attachment pins