拍品 137
  • 137

A LARGE SAFAVID ENGRAVED TINNED-COPPER DEEP BOWL, PERSIA, DATED 1078 AH/1667-8 AD |

估價
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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描述

  • brass
  • 20.3cm. height; 31cm. max. diam. 
of deep hemispherical form with everted rim, on a short foot, engraved around the body with a wide band of entwined split-palmettes and floral scrolls, between thin rows with calligraphic cartouches and animal motifs, abstract palmettes near foot

來源

Private collection, UK, since mid-20th century.

Condition

The interior with discoloration due to oxidisation, some scratches throughout and rubbing revealing tinned copper, as viewed.
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拍品資料及來源

inscriptions

Around the upper band: the nada ‘Ali quatrain and a Persian couplet.
Owner’s name: ‘Shah (?) Agha Baygum’
Around the body, upper cartouches: a Persian quatrain in praise of the basin (badiyah), followed by a Persian benedictory couplet.
Around the body, lower cartouches: a Persian quatrain, followed by a Persian couplet (not fully deciphered).
Under the base: ‘Its owner Muhammad 1078 AH (1667-8 AD)’

A similar form is illustrated in Melikian-Chirvani 1982, pp.330-1, no.151.