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Lot 96*,R
A late Timurid or early Safavid tinned-copper bowl Persia, late 15th/ early 16th century
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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A late Timurid or early Safavid tinned-copper bowl
Persia, late 15th/ early 16th century
Persia, late 15th/ early 16th century
of squat form tapering at the neck towards an everted rim, engraved and decorated to the body with inscription-filled cartouches interspersed by roundels on a ground of split palmette interlace, the neck with alternating inscription-filled cartouches and quatrefoils, the rim with foliate scrollwork, the base with inscription
25.4 cm. diam.
25.4 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private UK collection, acquired at Sotheby's, 12 October 1981, lot 182.
Inscriptions: the call to God to bless The Twelve Imams with owner's name as Haji Jalal ... ; Persian couplets, including one from a ghazal of Hafiz, others relating to wine cups, drinking and burning with the fire of love; to the base, three letters and the number 1282.
For a comparable Timurid or early Safavid tinned-copper bowl sold at Sotheby's, see Arts of the Islamic World, 8 October 2014, lot 108.
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