A ZAND-STYLE SILVER-INLAID BRASS TRAY WITH FIGURAL DECORATION
Qajar Iran, late 18th - early 19th century

In the shape of a cusped rectangular cartouche, with an everted, reinforced rim, the densely engraved interior showcasing a central rectangular panel in-filled with fourteen characters, some human and some mythical, ten seated on a high throne and the remaining four standing, reserved against a scrolling flowering ground, each encased within a silver-inlaid cusped arch, surrounded by a lively interlace of alternating small and large roundels containing more figural decoration with riders, animals, and semi-divine creatures, several concentric decorative bands with arabesque and split palmette trellis on the cavetto and rim, 38.5cm x 53.5cm.