Lot 195
- 195
A Safavid brass bowl, Persia, circa 1600
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Brass
of deep rounded form raised on a narrow foot with everted rim, the exterior chiselled and engraved with a major band of composite scrolling floral ribbons with split and full palmette terminals, narrow band of arcaded palmettes to the underbody, and calligraphic inscriptions to the rim, calligraphic roundel to the base, heightened with black
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
Call to God to bless 'The Fourteen Innocents'
Owner's name: 'Mir Jamal [son of] Habib ....'
Call to God to bless 'The Fourteen Innocents'
Owner's name: 'Mir Jamal [son of] Habib ....'