High-Tin Bronze Bowl

Inscription: Inside upper band in kufic script:
Keep your tongue from speaking and getting in trouble, because problems always come from talking. For every delay there is a book; for every work there is a reward; for every work there is deferment. Work of Abu Nasr al-Naqqash.

Inside lower band in kufic script:
With joy, blessing, longevity, joy, happiness, power, joy, victory, victory, victory, and joy.

Outside upper band in kufic script: (same as inside upper band)
Keep your tongue from speaking and getting in trouble, because problems always come from talking. For every delay there is a book; for every work there is a reward; for every work there is deferment. Work of Abu Nasr al-Naqqash.

Outside lower band in kufic script:
With joy, blessing, happiness, and peace.
[Francesca Leoni, 4-15-2008]

Inside upper band in Kufic script: Arabic poem and proverbs and name of metal worker:

احفظ لسانک لا لتقول فتبتلا ان الکلام موکل بالمنطق
لكل اجل كتاب و لكل عمل ثواب و لكل عمل رجاء -- عمل بو نصر النقاش

Inside lower band:
باليمن و البركة والبقاء و النصرة و النصرة و الغبطة

Outside larger band: same as inside upper band
Outside central star:

باليمن والبركة والسرور والسلامة

[Abdullah Ghouchani, 2011]

A. F. Mackenzie ; Hagop Kevorkian, New York (by 1957–d. 1962); by descent to the Kevorkian Foundation, New York (1962–70; its sale, Sotheby's London,December 8, 1970, no. 85, to MMA)

von Grunebaum, Gustave E., ed. Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. pp. 115–16, ill. pl. 3a.

Swietochowski, Marie, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Notable Acquisitions 1965–1975 (1975). p. 139, ill. (b/w).