Arts of the Islamic World & India

A Safavid tinned-copper footed bowl, Persia, 17th century

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Safavid tinned-copper footed bowl, Persia, 17th century

of deep rounded form raised on a narrow foot with incurved shoulder and everted rim, the exterior chiselled and engraved with a major band of composite scrolling floral ribbons with split- and full-palmette terminals, narrow band of arcaded palmettes to the underbody, and calligraphic inscriptions to the rim, calligraphic roundel to the base, heightened with black

30.9cm. diam.

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inscriptions:

Call to God to bless 'The Fourteen Innocents'

Signed in Persian: 'Ni'mat, the Servant of the King of Vilayat.

A very similar bowl was offered in these rooms, 25 April 2018, lot 139. Both share a similar inscription to a comparable footed bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.M.50-1956).