Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
A tinned copper bowl, signed by Bu Bakr ibn al-Khabbaz, Western Persia or Mesopotamia, 14th/15th century
Auction Closed
March 30, 12:47 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of shallow rounded form with slightly everted rim, the body decorated with a band of fine arabesque alternating with scalloped medallions and inscriptions against a background of spiral stems
9.5cm. height; 19cm. diam.
inscriptions
In the cartouches a poem attributed to the poet Juban al-Qawwas (d.circa 1281-82): 'A beloved whose saliva quenches the lover, a gulp, delightful to kiss, not obstructive, the lips touch all sides of it, and what is special about it, it is a [place with no place]’.
On the body: 'The servant (of God), the needy of the Mighty God Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Alam endowed this bowl to the Prophet's Noble Sanctuary (Prophet's mosque in Medina); also on the body poorly incised: 'Endowed to the sanctuary in the Hijaz (?) …'
A basin also made of copper and bearing similar spiral roundels is now in the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, inv. no.I.3590.