A large Khorasan silver and copper inlaid inscribed basin, Northeast Iran, 12th century, the flat base with rounded sides recurving to the flaring fourteen-sided cusped rim, the centre with a small inlaid rosette, the lobes alternately inlaid in silver and copper, surrounded by a dense engraved hexagonal lattice of strapwork enclosing panels of scrolling vine, in a narrow border of stylised repeated inlaid kufic inscriptions in an outer inverted arcaded border, the sides with a broad band of naskh repeated stylised inscriptions, 50.5cm. diam. Provenance: Private Collection Denmark formed in the 1980s Please refer to department for condition report