The Wade Cup with Animated Script, Shahdom of Khwarizm, Iran, Seljuk Period, 1200-1221AD. Cleveland Museum of Art 1944.485.

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The Wade Cup with Animated Script
Shahdom of Khwarizm, Iran, Seljuk Period, 1200-1221AD. Cleveland Museum of Art.

The Wade Cup with Animated Script, Shahdom of Khwarizm, Iran, Seljuk Period, 1200-1221AD. Cleveland Museum of Art 1944.485.

The Wade Cup with Animated Script, 1200-1221
Iran, Seljuk Period, 13th Century
Diameter: width 16.10 cm (6 5/16 inches); Overall: height 11.50 cm (4 1/2 inches).
Inscription: The band of animated script around the rim of the cup is a series of good wishes for the owner. It translates: "Glory, and success, and government, and bliss, and soundness, and peace of mind, and mercy, and well-being, and good health, and duration, and increase, and satisfaction, and care, and continuance to its owner." Arabic is written from right to left.
Collection: Islamic Art
Artist: Iran, Seljuk Period, 13th Century
Type of art work: Metalwork
Medium: brass inlaid with silver
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
1944.485
Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

Animated Script on The Wade Cup, Seljuk, 1200-1221AD. Cleveland Museum of Art

THE "ANIMATED" NASKHĪ INSCRIPTION ON THE WADE CUP. (After drawing by D. S. Rice.)
The "Wade Cup" in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Its Origin and Decorations by Richard Ettinghausen. Source

Referenced as figure 293 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
293. Inlaid metal cup, The Wade Cup, c. 1220 AD, Jazīrah or Azarbayjān, Museum of Art, Cleveland.