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Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).

Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).

Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).

Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).

Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).

Vessel with qur’anic verses and the names of the Twelve Imams, chased copper, Golconda or Bijapur, Deccan, India, 17th c. CE, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo credit: Michael Pregill).