A SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL

A SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL

WESTERN IRAN, DATED AH 1022/1613-14 AD

The bowl rising from a short foot to tall rounded body, the body engraved with a band of animals below a taller band of scenes from the Khamsa of Nizami, depicting both animals and human figures including Khosrow and Shirin and Layla and Majnun, both against grounds of swirling vegetation, the mouth with a band of nasta’liq inscriptions set in cartouches, dated, the interior plain, shortened foot

8 ½in. (22.5cm) high; 8in. (20.3cm.) diam.