A Khorasan silver and copper-inlaid bronze tray, Persia, 13th Century

of rectangular form with elongated octagonal well, engraved and decorated in silver and copper inlay with a central roundel filled with cable design forming six-pointed stars, flanked by cartouches filled with inscriptions in kufic, the sloping walls with knotted panels alternating with crescents, the rim with inscription-filled cartouches interspersed by crescent roundels
30.2 x 18.5 cm.

Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.
Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 27 April 1993, lot 123

Inscriptions: al-'izz wa al-iqbal wa al-salamah wa al-z/iyadah wa al-salamh wa al-'afiyah wa ... / wa al-ta'id wa al-tammah wa al .../wa al-salamah wa al- ... wa al-faraghah wa al-ziyadah wa al-shukrah wa al-.../wa al- ... wa al-ziyadah wa al-sa'adah li-sahibihi, 'Glory and prosperity and well-being and abundance and well-being and health and ... and (God's) support and plentitude and ... and well-being and ... inner calm and abundance and gratitude and ... and abundance and happiness to its owner', bi'l-yumn wa al-birr wa al-salam[ah]/wa al-birr wa al-barakah wa a, 'With good-fortune and piety and well-being and piety and blessing and'.

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