Byzantine Dish with Floriate Decoration. 11th-13th century A.D. A low bronze vessel with drum-shaped body, the sides with panels of Arabesque knot patterns and geometric figures; the inside base with a six-petalled flower ornamented with dotted arabesques and foliage; the flat base decorated with concentric circles. Cf. Darkevich, V.P., Byzantine Secular Art in the 12th and 13th centuries, (in Russian) Moscow, 1975, pp.220ff. 155 grams, 10.5 cm wide (4 1/8 in.) Ex Mayfair gallery, 1990s. The decorative floral pattern of the vessel finds correspondence with various ornaments on the Byzantine vessels of 11th-13h centuries A.D. Similar ornaments were widespread also among the Seljuks of Rum in the same period as result of commercial interchange between the two enemy empires.

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