the incised decoration comprising a band of inscriptive cartouches and quatrefoils containing foliate arabesques on a hatched ground, with inscription near rim, the body with a densely engraved design of split-palmettes and interwoven floral sprays

In general good condition, the surface rubbed with losses to tinned copper, scratches, oxidisation visible on interior with few minor cracks with associated consolidation, as viewed.
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inscriptions

The Persian inscriptions contain one quatrain asking the user of this bowl to show gratitude for what he eats from this bowl. Others are a benedictory quatrains and a couplet.

An owner’s name is incised under the rim as: ‘Its owner, the daughter of Muhammad Zaman, Malak Jali (?)'