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A LARGE MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BRASS BASIN
EGYPT, AL-NASIR MUHAMMAD PERIOD, 1293-1341 AD
With tall slightly tapering walls and flaring mouth, the engraved and silver-inlaid decoration with an inscription in large thuluth script on dense palmette scrolls interrupted by three roundels, each of these roundels with a radiating calligraphic inscription bordered with bold lotus flowers and palmettes in the shape of birds, a frieze of drop-motifs above the main register, the ground inlaid with black composition, the cavetto with similar thuluth inscription divided by six roundels with a small central rosette surrounded by birds, the lip with lines of meandering vine and geometrical motifs, the interior with a solar motif and six fish, the base reduced, most inlay missing, rubbed
18 7/8in. (48cm.) diam.
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