Engraved bronze tripod platter, Seljuk Iran, Khorassan, 12th - 13th century Small circular dish with a slightly truncated cone-shaped wall and slightly curved lip, in bronze with engraved decoration in the center of a starry rosette surrounded by a frieze of sphinxes alternating with birds in a medallion. On the lip, scroll and interlace cartouches and on the outside, epigraphic cartouches alternating with birds in medallions. The three feet on which the dish rests are feline-shaped. The numbers 1644 are inscribed under the base. Diameter: 17.3 cm; height: 7.2 cm Oxidation, small impact on one lip.