ABBASID BRONZE BOWL WITH CENTRAL DOTTED BANDS Ca. 600 - 750 BC. A deep cylindrical bronze bowl with a flat base. The interior is decorated with concentric bands of dotted motifs. The exterior is incised with a repeating lozenge pattern, each filled with small punched circles. For similar see: A.S. Melikian-Chivari, The White Bronzes of the Early Islamic Iran, Metropolitan Museaum Journal, f. 23, Bowl, Herat Museum. Size: 135mm x 65mm; Weight: 430g Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.