Sorry for absence. It has been a strange time ...
It says, in Arabic:
هدیة من سلطان سليمان الى جوهر اغا
'Gift from Sultan Sulayman (Süleyman) to Jawhar Agha (Cevher Ağa)'
I don't think we can take that as a serious attribution, though it doesn't look like a modern fake to me either. From an early age artisans copied royal inscriptions on humbler pieces.
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