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Lot Essay
The inscription around the rim reads 'umila bi rasm al-janab al-'ali , al-mawlawi al-amiri al-kabiri , al-sayyidi al-maliki al-makh , al-makhdumi al-'adudi al-dhukh , al-dhukhri al-fakhri al-muja , al-mujahidi al-murabiti al , (it was made for His High Excellency, the Lordly, the Great Emir, the Masterly, the Possessor, the Well-served, the Powerful, the Treasure house [of excellence], the Pride, the Holy-warrior, the Defender).
Around the main body is the following inscription mimma 'umila bi rasm al-janab , al-'ali al-mawlawi , al-amiri al-kabiri , al-sayyidi al-maliki al-makh , al-makhdumi al'a , al-'adudi al-dhukhri , (one of what was made for His High Excellency, the Lordly, the Great Emir, the Masterly, the Possessor, the Well-served, the Powerful, the Treasure house [of excellence].
The roundels around the rim are undeciphered, some being short titles, others being repetitions of letters. Those around the body read 'izz li-mawlana al-sultan (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan).
This basin of unusual proportions appears to be of provincial manufacture. Some of the features look back to earlier vessels, its material, the form and the layout of the decoration all harking back to great basins of the fourteenth century such as that in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Marilyn Jenkins, The al-Sabah Collection, Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p.94). The composite nature of the blazon however, combining different elements in the same roundel, indicates a date of the late 15th century.
Around the main body is the following inscription mimma 'umila bi rasm al-janab , al-'ali al-mawlawi , al-amiri al-kabiri , al-sayyidi al-maliki al-makh , al-makhdumi al'a , al-'adudi al-dhukhri , (one of what was made for His High Excellency, the Lordly, the Great Emir, the Masterly, the Possessor, the Well-served, the Powerful, the Treasure house [of excellence].
The roundels around the rim are undeciphered, some being short titles, others being repetitions of letters. Those around the body read 'izz li-mawlana al-sultan (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan).
This basin of unusual proportions appears to be of provincial manufacture. Some of the features look back to earlier vessels, its material, the form and the layout of the decoration all harking back to great basins of the fourteenth century such as that in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Marilyn Jenkins, The al-Sabah Collection, Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p.94). The composite nature of the blazon however, combining different elements in the same roundel, indicates a date of the late 15th century.