Bowl
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Description:
Bowl, made of tinned copper, flaring foot, rim slightly thicker than sides. Inscription of names of the 'Fourteen Immaculate Ones' in band in nasta`liq script on floral arabesque and hatched ground. Lobed roundel separates beginning and end of inscription. Dated AH 1053/1643 AD.
Object type: | bowl |
Museum number: | 2006,0405.1 |
Culture/period: | Safavid dynasty |
Date: | 1643 (AH 1053) |
Production place: | Made in: Iran |
Materials: | copper, tin |
Technique: | engraved |
Dimensions: | Height: 13.20 cm Diameter: 29.00 cm |
Inscriptions: | Inscription details: inscription (beneath rim on exterior) in Persian in Nasta‘liq script Inscription quoted: Inscription translation: O God, may your blessings descend upon al-Mustafa Muhammad, al-Murtaza `Ali, the Virgin Fatima, the grandsons al-Hasan and al-Husayn; may your blessings descend upon Zayn al-`Ibad `Ali, al-Baqir Muhammad, al-Sadiq Ja`far, al-Kazim Musa, al-Riza `Ali, al-Taqi Muhammad, al-Naqi `Ali, al-Zaki al-`Askari al-Hasan; may your blessings descend upon the Mahdi, the guide, lord of the period and all times. The year 1[0]53 [1643] Inscription note: The inscription ends abruptly with the letter sad which would have started the word salwat had the scribe/metalworker not run out of space. The inscription follows exactly one found on a footed bowl dated 1017/1608-9 in the V&A, M.50-1956. (Melikian-Chirvani, 1982, no. 149) |
Location: | 33 |
Exhibition history: | Exhibited: 2009 19 Feb-14 Jun, BM, Round Reading Room, 'Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran' |
Acquisition names: | Purchased from: Millner Manolatos |
Acquisition date: | 2006 |
Curator's comments:
For similar inscription see number 149 in A S Melikian-Chirvani, "Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World 8th-18th Centuries" (1982), London: HMSO.
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