A RARE KHORASSAN ENGRAVED BRONZE CIRCULAR TRAY

A RARE KHORASSAN ENGRAVED BRONZE CIRCULAR TRAY
12TH/13TH CENTURY

The shallow dish has a flared rim and a tapering body engraved with votive inscriptions, the interior is decorated with geometric patterns encircled by a wide band of calligraphy. The whole is raised on three later elephants and riders and has an overall greenish patina, 1.3kg, 18cm wide, 8.7cm high.

Provenance: found at Hamadan, (according to the literature), from the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, 1871-1949.

Exhibited: Persian Art, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1931, no.74D.

Published: Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956, pp.284-285.

Cf. G Fehervari, Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, pl.23, nos.74-76 for related dishes.

十二/十三世紀 霍拉桑銅托盤

來源：據斯托克萊文獻記載，此盤在霍拉桑尋得。Adolphe Stoclet (斯托克萊1871-1949）收藏。

展覽：Persian Art, 倫敦皇家藝術研究院, 1931年, 編號74D。

出版：Georges A Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Adolphe Stoclet Collection (part I), Brussels, 1956年, 頁284-285。