AN IMPRESSIVE TINNED COPPER BOWL DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA , DATED...

AN IMPRESSIVE TINNED COPPER BOWL
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA , DATED AH 1089 / 1678-79 AD
The bowl rising from a flared foot to a wide rounded body with slightly flaring rim, finely engraved with a broad band of hunting scenes including a variety of huntsmen and animals, real and mythical, against a scrolling floral ground, the lower band with roundels containing split-palmette arabesques and pendants issuing towards the foot, the upper band with an inscription in elegant ta'liq against a scrolling floral ground, the inscription with invocations to the Twelve Imams.
18in. (45.7cm.) diam.

Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 April 1997, lot 353
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 5 October 2010, lot 37

Literature
This is inscribed with the call on God to bless Muhammad and the Twelve Imams and, within a lobed cartouche, an owner’s inscription, sahibuhu hatim valad-i dur ‘ali sana 1[0]89, ‘Its owner is Hatim, son of Dur ‘Ali, year 1[0]89 (1678-9)'