* A SAFAVID TINNED COPPER BOWL PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR Iran, 17th - 18th century Of compressed circular shape, on a gently rounded plain base, with narrow shoulders and a flared cylindrical neck ending in a reinforced circular rim, the exterior engraved with three main decorative bands, the largest band with arabesque medallions filled with vegetal tendrils, above it a continuous band with cusped cartouches within roundels, around the neck a calligraphic band with the salawat and the names of the Imams, against scrolling vegetal sprays, framed within two thin bands of vegetal scrollworks, 21cm diam. and 15.5cm high. (21cm diam. and 15.5cm high)