Bidspirit auction | A LARGE AYYUBID SILVER INLAID

A LARGE AYYUBID SILVER INLAID BRASS BOWL WITH INSCRIPTIONS, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 13TH CENTURY - A large bowl of deep rounded form decorated around the rim with an elegant benedictory inscription separated by six roundels, each containing a silver inlaid seated figure surrounded by small florets and leaves, above a band of arabesques and short lancet leaves. Inscriptions: around the shoulder ”Perpetual Glory and Safe Life and Increasing Prosperity and Perfect Good-fortune, Well-being, Dominant Command, Generosity, Agreeable Wealth, Safe Good-fortune and Increasing Prosperity and Perfect Good-fortune, Well-being,... Command”. Diameter: 38 cm. Height: 15 cm.