A large inscribed Iranian bronze basin Khorasan, 12th century, the sheet-bronze basin with a scalloped rim, decorated with a large incised band of Kufic script to the inner rim, geometric lattice-work decoration of six-pointed stars to the interior, with a copper inlaid flower-form roundel to the centre, surrounded by six copper-inlaid crescent moons., the lattice-work decoration interspersed with decoration of hounds, 14.5 cm high, 53 cm diameter