A Safavid tinned-copper wine bowl Persia, 17th Century


of deep rounded form with straightened sides and everted rim on a short foot, profusely engraved with a band containing a repeat design of partial cartouches with pendant pole-medallions overlaid with floral motifs, the interstices with palmette motifs, the rim with a band of inscription in nasta'liq, the base with an inscription-filled cartouche in the form of an eight-pointed star 16 cm. diam.
|Inscriptions: the call to God to bless the twelve Imams; to base, owner's name, 'Muhammad Reza Qazvini'.