A Copper-inlaid Cast Bronze Bucket, Khurasan, 13th Century

of spherical form supported on a narrow splayed foot, with slightly inverted sides and cast foliate handle, the body engraved and inlaid in copper with alternating roundels enclosing stellar motifs and birds amidst palmettes scrolls all on a ring-punched ground, narrow scrolling band below and calligraphic band above with further palmette scrolls

Pitting and verdigris patination, rubbing to copper inlay, as viewed
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inscriptions
In cursive:

bi'l-yumn wa al-baraka wa al-salama wa al-sa'ada wa al-daw [la]

'With Good-fortune and Blessing and Well-being and Happiness and Wealth'