A Fine Timurid Tinned-Copper bowl, West Persia, circa 1500

of rounded form with flat rim, the incised decoration comprising a band of inscriptive cartouches and floral and 'Y' pattern quatrefoils on a hatched ground, the base decorated with dense engraved vegetation leading to a central roundel issuing split-palmettes from its centre, the well with a central roundel depicting fish and lotus plants

In good overall condition, an allover patination consistent with age, some minor scratches and abrasions to base, overall greyish tint, engraving strong and refined, as viewed.
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inscriptions
Three couplets from a ghazal of Hafiz
Owner's name as: 'Its owner and possessor Ustad (master) Yari Saffar (the copper-smith)' followed by a Persian benedictory phrase.

The bowl displays motifs found on a tinned copper dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which bears the date September 1496-August 1497 and is thought to have originated in Khurasan (see Melikian-Chirvani 1982, pp.250-2). Oblong cartouches, interspersed with roundels bearing the "Y" pattern, decorate the interior rim and the well shows a trilobate design comprising similar lotuses among Chinese clouds or chi, all on a ground of hachure. A bowl from West Persia of similar shape with a border of foliate cartouches against a hatched ground and dated to the early 16th century, was sold in these rooms 1 April 2009,  Lot 114.