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Khorasan Silver-Inlaid Brass Bowl Khorasan Silver-Inlaid Brass Bowl Khorasan Silver-Inlaid Brass Bowl
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LOT 0255

Khorasan Silver-Inlaid Brass Bowl

NORTH EASTERN IRAN, 13TH CENTURY A.D.

4 in. (82 grams, 10 cm wide).

Squat in profile with narrow basal ring, broad mouth; shoulder with band of ornamental Kufic calligraphic text with silver inlay on a field of leaves and tendrils, reading: 'al-'izz wa'l-iqbal wa'l-dawla wa'l-salama wa'l-sa'ada wa'l-nima wa'l-'afiya wa wa'l-shukra wa'l-shakir[a] wa'l-nusra wa'l-nasirawa'l-'inaya wa'l-baqa da'iman' (Glory and prosperity and wealth and well-being and happiness and divine grace and health and gratitude and gratefulness and victory and favour and long life, perpetually); two strips of silver inlay to the edges of the median band; knotwork arcading below with silver inlay to the weave and pendants.

Provenance

with a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s.
Private collection, London, UK.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12545-231976.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Christie's London, 31st March 2022, lot no.18, for a similar vessel.

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LOT 0255

Khorasan Silver-Inlaid Brass Bowl

Estimate £6,000 - 8,000€6,960 - 9,280 (for guidance only)$8,100 - 10,800 (for guidance only)

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