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Bowl

1620-1621 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Iran

Metalwork; Bowl, tinned copper with engraved decoration of animals in cartouches, and Persian poetry inscription around the rim, Safavid Iran, dated 1620-1621 (1030H)

Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Bowl
Brief description
Metalwork; Bowl, tinned copper with engraved decoration of animals in cartouches, and Persian poetry inscription around the rim, Safavid Iran, dated 1620-1621 (1030H)
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.8cm
  • Diameter: 25.7cm (max)
Style
Safavid
Gallery label
(Used until 10/2002)
COVERED BOWL
Engraved with designs of animals.
PERSIAN; about 1600


405-1884
BOWL
Tinned copper.
PERSIAN; DATED 1621
Bibliographic references
  • Sussan Babaie, "The Sound of the Image/ The Image of the Sound: Narrativity in Persian Art of the 17th Century" in Oleg Grabar and Cynthia Robinson (eds), The Sound of the Image in Islamic Art and Literature (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001) pp.143-162.
  • Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th - 18th Centuries (London: HMSO, 1982) pp.330-332.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
405-1884

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Record createdJuly 29, 2005
Record URL
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