A TIMURID ENGRAVED TINNED-COPPER DISH, PERSIA, 15TH CENTURY |

of shallow form engraved with interlacing palmette-form arabesques on a hatched ground in the centre and seated feasting figures in the cavetto

The dish has lost most of the original tinning, with some cracks near the edges and cavetto as well as within the centre, including some later consolidations, minor dents throughout edge, reverse with discoloration, as viewed.
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The star-form interlace and elegant, well-defined palmette arabesques are typical of late Timurid work and can be paralleled on tilework (see Jenkins 1983, no.38, p.34; and Carboni & Masuya 1993, no.34, p.39) as well as metalwork of the period (see Melikian-Chirvani 1982, pp.231-259; and Komaroff 1992, no.25, pp.206-7). It is particularly rare to see figures depicted on a Timurid piece.