A small Mamluk silver-inlaid bowl, Syria or Egypt, 13th/14th century

of shallow rounded form with slightly everted rim, body decorated with three silver-inlaid inscriptive cartouches separated by frond and bird motifs, fish-form floret to interior well, base with old collection number 'ee 986 an' 

In fairly good condition, lower section with various dents, silver-inlay largely missing, as viewed.
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inscriptions

‘The High Authority, the Lordly, the Great Amir, the Learned, the Just, the Conqueror, the Holy-warrior’