A pair of early 20^th century Iranian (Persian) silver bowls, Isfahan circa 1930

Pahlavi dynasty, each of hemispherical form upon a short cylindrical foot. The bodies with all over pierced decoration of foliate scrolls and flowering urns attended to by nightingales (golo morph), heightened with chased decoration. The short foot with chased monabbat-kari decoration of trailing scrolls. Unmarked. (2)

Diameter – 12 cm / 4.75 inches

Weight – 298 grams / 9.58 ozt

These bowls, which originally would have had coloured glass liners are almost certainly inspired by the pierced Chinese export silver bowls with liners popular at the turn of the 19^th/beginning of the 20^th century.