12th-13th century AD. A bronze shallow bowl with plain lid, inner face decorated with concentric ornamental bands including calligraphic text reserved on a hatched field, roundels with reserved (zodiacal?) images, interlaced tendrils, punched roundels and other motifs. See Fehérvári, G. Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976 for discussion. 1.4 kg, 21.5cm (8 1/2"). Property of a London gentleman, acquired in the 1990s. Fine condition.