#kashkul

[philoursmars]

Quelques photos sur l’expo au louvre-Lens, “L’Empire des Roses” sur la dynastie iranienne des Qajar.

- rouleau talismanique - Iran, fin XVIIIe

- kashkul=bol à aumône de derviche  - Iran, 1835

- A.M. Ifsahani - deux carreaux de céramique - Iran, 1893

- portraits d'Abbas Mirza et de deux princesses - Iran, 1810

- Gh.R. Ifsahani - calligraphie - Iran, 1881

- Ali Reza - porte (détail) - Ispahan, mi-XIXe

- vue générale

[treasures-and-beauty]

Kashkul (begging bowl) Iran early 1500s                

[couniform]

Kashkul, or Beggar’s Bowl, with Portrait of Dervishes and a Mounted Falconer, A.H. 1280.

[theiainteriordesign]

A COCO-DE-MER BEGGING BOWL (KASHKUL)

Persia, 19th century. Length 31 cm.

[lifestyleitb]

LIFESTYLEITB admires the KASHKUL

A KASHKUL or a Beggars' Bowl, is made from half of a coco-de-mer shell or brass or wood, and would have been carried by a dervish who had renounced all worldly possessions, subsisting only on almsgiving from devout Muslims. Beggars’ bowls were often highly decorated , and they date back to the 18th and 19th century Qajar Dynasty in Iran.

The Kashkuls in the picture below are made out of coco-de-mer and are inlaid with camels' bones, they are copies of the older Kashkuls.

LIFESTYLEITB:  Inscribed is "God, the fulfiller of needs"

[timur-i-lang]

Begging bowl (kashkul), India, Deccan; c. 1600

"Boat-shaped begging bowls made of coco de mer (a rare type of coconut), wood, or metal were typical accessories for many wandering dervishes, along with staffs and certain articles of clothing. This heavy and magnificent bowl, however, was probably displayed in one of the many Shiite shrines that can still be found in the Deccan.

The painstakingly executed Thuluth inscriptions that stand out smoothly against the engraved background, both inside and out, are passages from the Koran and Shiite invocations. The boat shape, which terminates in dragon heads, is Persian in origin, but the dense, engraved decoration and lovely brownish patina are typical of a group of metal objects made in the Deccan."