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Bath Pail (Satl), c. 1580–1610. cast brass, turned, engraved, inlaid with black compound (niello), Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); Diameter of base: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.). Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1969.291. CC0.
Bath Pail (Satl)
c. 1580–1610
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Bath Pail (Satl), c. 1580–1610. Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Cast brass, turned, engraved, inlaid with black compound (niello); overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); diameter of base: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); diameter of rim: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. 1969.291 Three animal motifs are repeated within the geometric interlacing: a doe with its head turned backward; a water fowl; and a horned animal, possibly an ibex.
Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); Diameter of base: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Inscribed
Inscription: Upper band:
At the breath of dawn [my Beloved] came from her house toward the Bath,/
A thousand hearts became dust on the road beneath her steps./
From seeing Your face, the bath-house day and night/
[Has] a thousand colored eyes on the door and ceiling./
As soon as my Moon [-faced Beloved] comes into the Bath,/
My eye becomes this bathing cup, and by eyebrow its handle. Remark: The inscriptions on the pail are in the curvilinear script known as nasta'liq. Inscription: Lower band:
I remember an old master saying in the Bathhouse:/
One day a young person asked of an old man:/
"What is the secret that makes anyone who sets foot in the bathhouse,/
Find his saddened heart opened up to joy?"/
He said: "The secret is that the bather has nothing of the trappings of this world/
But a bathing-bowl and towel -- and even those belong to others. Remark: Persian verses about Bathing