A PERSIAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE INKWELL, KHURASSAN STYLE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY A PERSIAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE INKWELL, KHURASSAN STYLE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY A PERSIAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE INKWELL, KHURASSAN STYLE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY A PERSIAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE INKWELL, KHURASSAN STYLE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

A PERSIAN SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE INKWELL, KHURASSAN STYLE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005843

Of cylindrical form applied with three hinged handles, decorated in silver inlay with two bands containing inscriptions in kufic script and horsemen in fight scenes. The underside of base with a roundel enclosing a seated figure with flower heads, the cover with a central domed section surmounted by a bud finial and engraved with a band of silver inlaid inscriptions in kufic script, with three loop handle.
Height: 14 cm.

Inscriptions: in elegant kufic script with heads above '' Lam and Alef'.
''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 (sic) [to its owner]''.