This lobed bowl owned by the Seattle Art Museum bears a design related to the royal hunt motif also explored by silversmiths, for it features many of the animals that served as quarry for these hunts. The head of a boar dominates the center of the bowl, flanked by an antelope on one side and an elk on the other. On the top and bottom are the figures of a tiger, with a vine motif separating the bands of design.

Lobed bowls or drinking cups, often of gilt silver or bronze, appear to have been made for export as well as for local consumption. The shape became associated with Iranian culture in Tang China, and was often imitated in ceramic. A twelve-lobed oblong drinking cup of green lead glass can also be found in the collection of the Shosoin, the treasure depository of Todaiji temple in Nara, Japan, which demonstrates how far the form had traveled by the ninth century. Originally the lobed form was believed to have been a Tang innovation, but excavations in northern Iran since have turned up lobed vessels that pre-date Tang examples, supporting the consensus that the shape is Sassanian in origin.