Of rounded form with raised central boss and everted rim, finely incised and decorated with black lac, the interior with a band of roundels containing figures and a sun interspersed by inscription, surrounded by a band containing a repeat design of interlocking inscription-filled cartouches in nastaliq and thuluth, the border and rim with further inscriptions, the exterior with a series of cartouches containing the twelve signs of the zodiac, all on a ground of inscription, above and below bands of inscription, two bands of inscription-filled cartouches to foot.
Diameter: 22 cm.
Inscriptions
including the Call to God to bless the Twelve Imams or the Fourteen Innocents and Quran, including al-Nasr and al-Saff.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany