Basin with calligraphic decoration and endless knots, Egypt or Syria mamluk, late 15th - early 16th century A large basin with a truncated cone-shaped body and domed base, made of hammered tin-plated copper and decorated with a wide band of poly-lobed cartouches decorated with palmettes, endless knots and inscriptions of invocations in thuluth Arabic on a hatched background. The cartouches alternate with star-shaped medallions decorated with interlocking Ys and surrounded by a beaded frieze of foliage, and the entablature is bordered by two friezes of braided cartouches. Under the vegetal frieze engraved on the lip, later inscription of a name of owner Hajji Muhammad ibn Hajji 'Ali and a date 1107 H / 1695. Diameter of the opening: 33.7 cm; height: 20 cm Old restorations, strong oxidation, shocks, perforation. A Mamluk Tinned Copper Calligraphic Basin, Egypt or Syria, late 15th - early 16th century