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LOT 1163
Khorasan Bronze Dish with Foxes
12TH CENTURY A.D.
10 5/8 in. (845 grams, 27 cm).
Squat dish or shallow bowl with raised rim; central looped interlace motif on a hatched foliage field, concentric decorative rings including running tendrils, frieze of running foxes, calligraphic text, radiating billets. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, October 2000.
Ex central London gallery.
Cf. von Gladiss, A., Glanz und Substanz. Metallarbeitung in der Sammlung des Museums für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 2012, item 2, for type.
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