A MASSIVE GOLD AND SILVER INLAID BRASS BOWL PROBABLY MADE FOR A FOLLOWER OF SULTAN SALAH AL-DIN SALIH IBN NASIR MALIK AL-SALIH MAMLUK EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA 1351-54 AD With shallowly rounded base sharply curving to the sloping sides with triangular section rim, the sloping sides engraved and originally inlaid with silver and gold forming a massive Mamluk thuluth honorific inscription on a ground of scrolling vine and perching birds, interrupted at intervals by roundels formed of inverted gold honorific calligraphy around a rosette and with a flowering vine border, a band above and below of linked cartouches containing fleeting animals, including elephants and unicorn, flowering vine interlace and divided by confronted bird roundels, a band of interlaced arcading below, the upper part of the rim with a band of birds, the interior with an arrangement of seven small circles surrounded by fish all within a radiating disc, almost all inscription inlay now missing, portions of the floral and animal inlay still remaining, decoration still crisp 24¼in. (61.5cm.) wide at mouth
A MASSIVE GOLD AND SILVER INLAID BRASS BOWL PROBABLY MADE FOR A FOLLOWER OF SULTAN SALAH AL-DIN SALIH IBN NASIR MALIK AL-SALIH MAMLUK EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA 1351-54 AD With shallowly rounded base sharply curving to the sloping sides with triangular section rim, the sloping sides engraved and originally inlaid with silver and gold forming a massive Mamluk thuluth honorific inscription on a ground of scrolling vine and perching birds, interrupted at intervals by roundels formed of inverted gold honorific calligraphy around a rosette and with a flowering vine border, a band above and below of linked cartouches containing fleeting animals, including elephants and unicorn, flowering vine interlace and divided by confronted bird roundels, a band of interlaced arcading below, the upper part of the rim with a band of birds, the interior with an arrangement of seven small circles surrounded by fish all within a radiating disc, almost all inscription inlay now missing, portions of the floral and animal inlay still remaining, decoration still crisp 24¼in. (61.5cm.) wide at mouth
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