An Impressive Tinned Copper Bowl

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.

Estimate:£50,000

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