Rare multi-lobed dish from the Qipchak Khanate or Golden Hor - Lot 211

Rare multi-lobed dish from the Qipchak Khanate or Golden Horde Silver and vermeil Golden Horde, 13th/14th century D. 15 cm Provenance : - English art market, 1980s. This partly gilded silver bowl is a rare example of the goldsmith's art of the Qipchak khanate, or Golden Horde. This Mongol Khanate, founded by a descendant of Genghis Khan from the line of Djotchi (eldest son of Genghis Khan), ruled over a geographical area stretching from Russia to the Caucasus. The objects in this group bear witness to the taste of the time and to cross-fertilization, as well as to the trade in luxury goods, particularly in this Eurasian zone. The sinister shape, reminiscent of a fruit, consists of a poly-lobed marli, the upper part of which forms a row of petals. The marli and gadroons alternate between cartouches engraved with gilded plants and silver cartouches. A silver bowl from the same period, also of polylobed form, preserved in the collections of the Yamal-Nenet Regional Museum is published by N.V. Fedorova in her study of the region's silverware in the article "Silver Vessels of the Golden Horde Era from the Middle Ob Basin" (Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 46/2, 2018, 114-122).