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The dome is moulded into 8 lotus-bud-shaped ribs which form a rossette around a central knop.   \r\n\r\nThe knop was engraved with a rossette pattern, now partly erased by wear.  The rib around the dome is engraved with a crenellated pattern, divided into three sections, each separated by a roundel enclosing three cursped, whirling lobes.\r\n\r\nOn the shoulder, the rim, and the everted base of the cover, the same crenellated pattern is divided into six sections with separating six-petalled flowers.  \r\nThe ribs of the dome have a stalked flower decoration(?).\r\n\r\nFinally, the body is divided into four horizontal borders of equal height.  Each band is engraved with the creneallated motif divided into nine sections and spaced with six-petalled  flowers.  Three reserved escutcheons, tear-drop shaped, correspond to the missing attachement plates.\r\n\r\nThree lotus-bud legs were cast as one with the body.  The underside of the base has engraved decoration featuring a central 12 petalled rossette.  Framing this are three lotus buds each centrally adjoined to a bi-focating leaf stem.  Three sections of guilloche form the outer border.\r\n\r\n A pair of hinges and a plain hasp attach the cover to the body.\r\n\r\nPatina: olive brown blackened by dirt.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"bronze","id":"AAT10957"},{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"engraved","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"inlaid","id":"AAT53850"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cast bronze with silver inlay","categories":[{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"},{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Writing","id":"THES261995"}],"styles":[{"text":"Iranian","id":"x35873"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AF6899"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES367333"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Ink pot","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Khorasan","id":"THES412603"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1200-1250","earliest":"1200-01-01","latest":"1250-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"10.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"with cover","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"6.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"without cover","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"7.9 - 8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"of vessel at moulding level","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"8.6 - 8.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"of underside","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"8.15","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"of cover shoulder","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased for £9 9s 10d from Mirza Sarkis Ayvazoff, 22 November 1902.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brass and bronze ink pot with a hinged lid, decorated with silver inlay, Iran (probably Khorasan), late 12th to early 13th century.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Melikian-Chirvani, A.S. <u>Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World,</u>London:HMSO, 1982, p127-128, ISBN 0 11 290252 9"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Melikian-Chirvani, A.S. <u>Le bronze Iranien,</u> Paris, 1973, pp. 22-3. 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