A SILVER INLAID IRANIAN FARS BASIN, 14TH CENTURY, IRANcircular in chiseled brass and inlaid with silver. The body is decorated with six roundels containing scenes of a seated prince and hunting horsemen, standing out against a floral and vegetal background dotted with stylized birds in an interlacing of mandorlas. Inside, a circle of spinning fish,silver inlays almost all partsIran, Fars, 14th century.HIGH. 13 CM  - DIAM. 19 CM Footnotes:This basin is typical of the Muzzafarid basins of the Fars region in western Iran.See Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, "Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World. 8th-18th centuries". Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982, pp. 209-211, cat. 95-98 for other similar basins inlaid with silver and gold.