Lot Essay
The inscription around the rim is a call to God to bless the Fourteen Innocents and a benedictory Persian couplet.
LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
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A LARGE ENGRAVED TINNED COPPER BOWL
LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
With rounded body and slightly concave shoulder rising to a flaring rim, a calligraphic inscription running around the shoulder between bands of interlace, engraved trefoils and cusped medallions with floral arabesques below, three cartouches with owners' names around the rim one reading sahibuhu Ya'qub bin Sultan bin Yusuf Bayg, a later one reading Fulad bin Mirak Savaji, minor rubbing
14½in. (36.7cm.) diam. (at rim)
LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
With rounded body and slightly concave shoulder rising to a flaring rim, a calligraphic inscription running around the shoulder between bands of interlace, engraved trefoils and cusped medallions with floral arabesques below, three cartouches with owners' names around the rim one reading sahibuhu Ya'qub bin Sultan bin Yusuf Bayg, a later one reading Fulad bin Mirak Savaji, minor rubbing
14½in. (36.7cm.) diam. (at rim)
Provenance
UK market, circa 2000
Brought to you by
Romain Pingannaud
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