Enrica Medugno
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Lot 41†,R
A large Fars gold and silver-inlaid brass bowl Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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A large Fars gold and silver-inlaid brass bowl
Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
of compressed globular form tapering towards the everted flattened rim, profusely engraved and decorated with black composition with a band of inscription-filled cartouches interspersed by roundels containing seated rulers, further vegetal and geometric designs, later ownership inscription to base, remains of silver inlay and gold inlay to crowns, the interior with a roundel containing a stylised sun motif surrounded by concentric bands of fish, the fish in the first band interspersed by ducks, with early 20th century hand written note relating to the piece with description and owner's details
27 cm. diam.
27 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Provenance
Formerly in the possession of a Mr. J. Alexander of 60 Redcliffe Road, London, according to note with the bowl.
Inscriptions: Al-'izz wa al-nasr [wa a] l-iqbal li-ni'am (sic)[wa al-ni'am?] la/ al-'ilm wa al-hilm [wa] al-daw/lat (sic) wa al-sa'adat (sic) [wa] salamah (sic) [wa a]l-'afiyah/ [wa] al-karam wa al-jud [wa] al-majd wa/ al-ifdal [wa] al-jadd wa / al-'alim [wa] al-'adil [wa]. 'Glory and victory and prosperity for grace (?) (or: and grace), knowledge and tolerance and wealth and happiness and well-being and health and generosity and liberality and splendour and excellence and rising (?) ... the learned,, the just and'; 'Its owner Muhammad Kazim'.
For a smaller but similar bowl sold at Sotheby's see Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets, 31 March 2021, lot 79.
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