A KHURASAN COPPER INLAID BRONZE DISH, PERSIA SELJUK, 12TH CENTURY A KHURASAN COPPER INLAID BRONZE DISH, PERSIA SELJUK, 12TH CENTURY A KHURASAN COPPER INLAID BRONZE DISH, PERSIA SELJUK, 12TH CENTURY

A KHURASAN COPPER INLAID BRONZE DISH, PERSIA SELJUK, 12TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005816

Of circular form with flat base, straight sides and everted flat rim, engraved and decorated in copper inlay to the well with a central roundel enclosing a royal seated figure, the rim with inscriptions, the exterior of the sides with cartouches filled with inscriptions, punctuated by roundels with birds.
Diameter: 17.5 cm.

Inscriptions:
Around the rim, in Kufic:
bi'l-yumn wa al-barakah wa/ wa al-dawlah wa al-sur/ur wa al-sa'adah wa/ wa al-salamah wa al-kir/amah wa al-shifa'ah/ wa l-tammah al-sahib (sic) [li-sahibihi] 'With good fortune and blessing and wealth and joy and happiness and well-being and generosity and [Prophet's] intercession and plenitude, the owner [to its owner]' Around the body, in Kufic:
bi'l-yumn wa / wa iqbal wa al-sa'adah wa/ wa al-salamah wa dawam.
'With good fortune and wealth and happiness and well-being and generosity'.

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany