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A LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL
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A LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL

IRAN, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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A LATE TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL
IRAN, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
With rounded sides and slightly everted rim, the sides with scrolling leafy vine on a cross-hatched ground surrounding a number of diagonal inscription cartouches, a similar band of inscription around the rim, all of the inscriptions giving invocations to the twelve Imams, some rubbing
9½in. (24.1cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Property of a Gentleman, sold in Christie's, King Street Rooms, 25 November 1985, lot 394
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The inscription around the rim of this bowl is a call to God to bless Muhammad and the Twelve Imams. The bowl is also inscribed with verses in Persian which are contained in calligraphic cartouches and which ask for the protection of the owner. In one of the cartouches is written, du'a-ye banda-ye mas'ud in ast, 'this is the prayer of the slave of Mas'ud'.

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