An engraved bronze bowl with inscriptions relating to the Chaghatai Khanate, in particular to events in the life of Mirza Haydar Dughlat (1500-1551)
North India, 16th/17th Centuryof deep rounded form with waisted neck, the body and neck decorated with inscription filled cartouches, the interstices with flowerheads and partial lobed cartouches enclosing vegetal and split-palmette interlace, the underside with a roundel to centre with arcade border, surrounded by a design of pole medallions, partial lobed cartouches and trefoil motifs
38 cm. diam. 注脚The inscriptions relate to the Chaghatai Khanate, in particular to events in the life of Mirza Haydar Dughlat (1500-1551), the military general who was a cousin of Babur and wrote a history of Central Asia called the Tarikh-i Rashidi. The events mentioned include his birth in 905 (1499-1500) in Uratappa (modern-day Istaravshan in Tajikistan) and his campaigns in Kashmir, Tibet and his service in India under Humayun.