Bidspirit auction | A FINE SAFAVID ENGRAVED BRASS

A FINE SAFAVID ENGRAVED BRASS TALISMANIC BOWL, PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY - Of rounded form with raised central boss and everted rim and rests on a small foot, finely incised and decorated with black lac, the interior with a band of roundels and cartouches containing inscriptions, the central boss surrounded by a band containing interlocking inscriptions in thuluth script, the border and rim with further inscriptions, the exterior with a series of cartouches containing the twelve signs of the zodiac, all on a ground of inscription, above and below bands of inscription, a band of inscription-filled cartouches to foot. Inscriptions: including the Call to God to bless the Twelve Imams ( Nada Ali) or the Fourteen Innocents and Quran, including al-Nasr and al-Saff. Diameter: 13 cm.