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A LARGE TINNED COPPER BOWL Safavid Iran, late 16th - early 17th century? Of compressed globular shape, resting on a plain base, with a flared neck and slightly splayed flat rim, the decoration consisting of two main registers, the register around the neck against a hatched ground and engraved with eight epigraphic cartouches with auspicious wishes and panegyrics to the owner (madh), interspersed with eight cartouches filled with vegetal tendrils and arabesques; a further sixteen roundels alternated to the cartouches, eight filled with flower heads and the remaining eight with wild animals, in order from right to left: a fox, a young buffalo, a monkey, a hyena-looking quadruped, a lion, a gazelle, a hare, and an ibex against a ground of scrollwork; the register on the body with cusped medallions filled with split palmettes and tendrils alternated with lobed medallions filled with arabesques and similar wild animals,?the rim engraved with continuous scrolling leafy tendrils and an ownership cartouche among them, 34cm diam. Inscription around the neck: ???? ?? ???? ???? ???? ????? ?? ?? ???? ???? ?? ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???? ???? ???? ? ????? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ?? ?? ??? ?? (???? ???? ?? ??) ??????? ??? ???? ???? May the world always follow your wish // May luck be your servant, like I am // May the spread of your good fortune be evident every day // May the table of your feasts be adorned // I wish for you only victory and good luck // May you always have a special servant, like I am // Every place ... May all his friends always turn into enemies. Inscription on the rim: ????? ????? ????? ?? Saheb-e Atabek Sardar Bot (?) Ownership signature: ????? ??? ???? Saheb-e Seyyed Mohammad It is interesting to notice that the sequence of wild animals present on this bowl is in some ways reminiscent, but not entirely similar, to another example mentioned in A. S. Melikian Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World 8th - 18th centuries, 1982, pp. 317 - 318, fig. 143. Indeed, the sequence starts with the fox but then the other animals follow in a different order. That said, the theme - the main animal characters of the hunt - seems to be the same. Even more interesting is the fact that the panegyric (madh) engraved on the published bowl matches the inscription on our bowl for six out of eight hemistichs, consolidating the scholar's assumption that bowls of this shape and part of this stylistic group must have been common during Shah 'Abbas' time (p. 317).Notes: Islamic & Indian Art