Lot 28
- 28
A silver-inlaid bronze dish, Khurasan, 13th century
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Bronze
- 10 5/8 inches
of shallow rounded form with a broad horizontal rim, the centre with a roundel of interlacing half-palmettes enclosing a six-pointed star motif on a punched ground, the rim with bold cursive calligraphy on a ground of vegetal scrolls
Catalogue Note
Inscriptions
'Glory and long-life and praise and laudation and being exalted and superior and... and brilliance and piety and favour and forbearance and modesty and learning and loyalty and light and brilliancy and cheerfulness and singꦯing and blessing and... affluence and sagacity and being sagacious and [God's] grace and approval and power and healing and contentment and health and fullness to its owner'