The bowl has a narrow bottom, very slightly concave sides rising at a 45' angle which abruptly bend inwards, then finish in an everted rim with a flat upper edge.

The engraved decoration is arranged hrizontally in concentric bands.
On the upper edge six horizontal cartouches with incurving sides enclose foliate scrolls. They are spaced by roundels inlaid with copper discs.

On the walls of the bowl an epigraphic frieze on a scrolling foliate ground is framed top and bottom by plain ribbons which form circular loops at regular intervals. Within these loops are 'stars of Solomon' are inlaid with copper on a hatched ground. The frieze is flanked above by a narrow band of foliate scrolls and below by a band of guilloche.

Beneath the guilloche band is a border with animal motifs, framed and spaced with loops like the epigraphic frieze. Within the loops are copper-inlaid rossettes. The animal frieze is on a scolling foliate ground. There are six sections each holding one figure walking to the left:
1. a wolf or fox sniffing the ground
2. a feline
3. a hound
4. a hare
5. another hare
6. a feline looking back at the latter, holding its right paw in the air.

In the central roundel on the underside a woman-headed bird with upturned tail stands on a scrolling ground.

Inside the bowl an epigraphic band, followed by a plain band, encloses a roundel. Within this roundel a woman-headed winged lioness is in left profile, left paw raised.

Patina: some patches of red oxide, otherwise mostly cleaned off. An abrasive product used (prior to acquisition by the museum) to clean the inside, leaving white traces in all the narrow grooves of the inner design.