A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY

A FARS BRASS BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3004936

With rounded base and sloping inverted sides leading to a thickened rim, the shoulder engraved with a band of bold thuluth inscription interrupted by three scalloped roundels enclosing horsemen on a floral sprays ground. A lower band of dense interlaced motifs issuing inverted drop shapes.
Inscriptions: Izz li mawlana al-sultan malik al-arab wa al-ajam ‘Glory to our Lord, the Sultan ".
Diameter of the mouth: 18 cm.
Height: 11 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE
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.