A GHAZNAVID HIGH TIN BRONZE BOWL of shallow hemispherical form, the interior incised with an unusually complex design of a central six-pointed star with interlaced arms surrounded by a variety of circular motifs and flanked by incised swags enclosing a variety of concentric circular and hatched lobed motifs, a band of small roundels around the rim, the bevelled rim with two small notches, the exterior with a few simple incised circles, circa 12th century

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A GHAZNAVID HIGH TIN BRONZE BOWL of shallow hemispherical form, the interior incised with an unusually complex design of a central six-pointed star with interlaced arms surrounded by a variety of circular motifs and flanked by incised swags enclosing a variety of concentric circular and hatched lobed motifs, a band of small roundels around the rim, the bevelled rim with two small notches, the exterior with a few simple incised circles, circa 12th century
7in. (18cm.) diam.

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