c.11th century A.D. A sheet-silver vessel with later gilded outer face, globular body on a low splayed foot-ring, rolled rim; repoussé ornamentprising a circumferential ring below the neck, two parallel rings to the equator above a band of looped and interlaced tendrils with leaves and ring below, hatching to the foot-ring; median band with legend in Pseudo-Arabic script. See Fehérvári, G., Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, for discussion of proto-types. 301 grams, 10.6 cm high (4 1/4 in."). In a private German collection since the 1980s. Property of a gentleman; acquired on the UK art market in 1998. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11007-181733. [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions ]Condition Report: Fair condition.