A FINE KHORASAN SILVER INLAID BRASS TRAY, PERSIA, CIRCA

Of rectangular form with a central octagonal recess area, engraved and inlaid with silver and brass with thuluth inscriptions on a scrolling floral ground interspersed with floral medallions and tear-shaped rosettes around the border, each corner with scrolling split palmette design, two rectangular panels bearing inscriptions in elongated kufic on a scrolling floral ground flanking a central medallion bearing lattice motif in the centre.
30.4 by 18.8 cm.
CATALOGUE NOTE
The inscriptions read consist of: in the borders in cursive script, al-’izz wa al-iqbal wa -al-dawla wa al-dawla wa al-sa’a/ da wa al-ni’ma wa al-ra/ ha wa al-’afiya wa al-karama wa al-nusra wa a/l-quwwa wa al-qudra wa al-rahma wa al-ta/mma wa al-ta’id wa al-tamma wa al-nada/ ma wa al-shafa’a wa al-baqa da’im li-sahibihi, ‘Glory and Prosperity and Wealth and Happiness and Well-being and (God’s) Grace and Ease and Health and Generosity and Victory and Power and Strength and (God’s) Mercy and Plenitude and (God’s) Support and Plenitude and Repentance and (Prophet’s) Intercessions and Long-life eternally to its owner’; and in the central bands in Kufic, bi’l-yumm wa al-baraka wa al-dawala/ wa al-surur wa al-baqa li-sahibihi, ‘With Good fortune and Blessing and Good turn of Fortune and Joy and Long-life to its owner’.