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Bowl

1450-1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown

Copper bowl with lid

Object details

Category
Metalwork
Object type
Bowl
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Lid
Materials and techniques
Copper
Cast
Engraved
Brief description
Middle East, Metalwork. Copper bowl with lid, cast, engraved with champleve designs, tinned, the ground filled with black composition, Turcoman; late 1450-1500. Persian distichs from the Book of Kings are engraved in a peculiar nasta aliq script not recorded elsewhere.
Physical description
Copper bowl with lid
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.8cm (bowl)
  • Diameter: 12cm (maximum)
  • Height: 3.5cm (lid only)
  • Diameter: 7.8cm (lid only)
Bibliographic references
  • A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World 8th-18th Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982, pp.252-3, no.111.
  • Linda Komaroff, The Golden Disk of Heaven: Metalwork of Timurid Iran Costa Mesa, California, and New York, 1992, pp.199-200, no.21.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
563:1, 2-1878

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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