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Dish with Qur'anic Inscription
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The placement of fish at the bottom of a vessel associated with water is a long-standing tradition in Islamic metalwork and can be seen in several earlier objects in this gallery. However, the form of these swirling fish, with human heads, is characteristic of the Deccan and can be seen in architecture as well as metalwork. Around the rim of this dish is the Throne Verse from the Quran in thuluth script against a scrolling vegetal background. The use of thuluth script during this period is also typical of the Deccan and can be paralleled in architecture; in contemporary northern India and Iran, nastaliq was the script of choice. Notes from the Glory and Prosperity exhibition, Feb - June 2002.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Philip Hofer Fund for Islamic and Indian Art the Fund for the Acquisition of Islamic Art and the Discretionary Fund of the Islamic Department
Title: Dish with Qur'anic Inscription
Description:
The placement of fish at the bottom of a vessel associated with water is a long-standing tradition in Islamic metalwork and can be seen in several earlier objects in this gallery.
However, the form of these swirling fish, with human heads, is characteristic of the Deccan and can be seen in architecture as well as metalwork.
Around the rim of this dish is the Throne Verse from the Quran in thuluth script against a scrolling vegetal background.
The use of thuluth script during this period is also typical of the Deccan and can be paralleled in architecture; in contemporary northern India and Iran, nastaliq was the script of choice.
Notes from the Glory and Prosperity exhibition, Feb - June 2002.
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