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Bowl

1375-1400 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Iran (produced)
Shiraz

Bowl, engraved brass with traces of silver and gold inlay, horizontal design of cartouches alternating between enthroned rulers with standing courtiers, and Arabic inscriptions in thuluth script

Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Hammered brass
Brass
Hammering
Brief description
Metalwork. Bowl, engraved brass with traces of silver and gold inlay, horizontal design of cartouches alternating between enthroned rulers with standing courtiers, and Arabic inscriptions in thuluth script, possibly Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, 1375-1400
Physical description
Bowl, engraved brass with traces of silver and gold inlay, horizontal design of cartouches alternating between enthroned rulers with standing courtiers, and Arabic inscriptions in thuluth script
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.7cm
  • Diameter: 17.2cm (Maximum)
  • Diameter at rim diameter: 13.15cm
Marks and inscriptions
العز لمولانا السلطان الاعظم مالک رقاب الامم السلطان السلاطین العرب و العجم العالم المالک
Translation
Glory to our lord the exalted Sultan, the master that curbs nations, Sultan of the Sultans, of the Arabs [and] Iranians, the learned one the ma[ster?]
Object history
Purchased by Caspar Purdon Clarke on 5 January 1886, at Christie, Manson & Woods (London), together with two similar brass bowls from Iran. Purdon Clarke described the group as follows "These are not later than the XVI Century and are now seldom found. They are not made from European sheet brass like the modern ware in the Museum but are cast in a gold coloured bronze for which Persia was famous" (V&A archive MA/1/C1401/1).
Bibliographic references
  • Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World. 8th-18th Centuries (London: HMSO, 1982) pp.213-214.
  • Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A, London, 2017, p.125.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
6-1886

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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