A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY

With rounded base, inverted sides and flattened rim, engraved with a series of roundels containing mounted warriors within quatrefoils interspersed by bands of inscriptions in thuluth, all on a ground of scrolling tendrils, the base with radiating bands of flower-filled palmette cartouches, owners’ inscriptions to rim and base.
23 cm. diam.

CATALOGUE NOTE
Inscriptions: ‘izz li-mawlana [a]l-malik a/l-’alim al-’adil/ [a]l-a’zam malik riqab
a/ l-umam [a]l-sultan /salatin al-’arab [wa] al-’ajam/, ‘Glory to our lord, the learned, the just, the most great, the one who curbs the nations Sultan of the sultans of Arabs and Iranians’; owners’ names, Mirza ‘Ali Naqi, Muhammad Muqim and ‘Ali Akbar.

For a bowl with a similar inscription in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic metalwork from the Iranian World: 8-18th Centuries, London, 1982, pp. 213-214, no. 98.

PROVENANCE
Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, United Kingdom