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Lot 317

A "Buff ware" pottery Bowl
Persia, 9th/10th Century

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,346 inc. premium

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A "Buff ware" pottery Bowl
Persia, 9th/10th Century

hemispherical, decorated in brown, green and yellow with a large equestrian figure surrounded by abstract motifs and flowers, a frieze of upright leaves around the exterior, the base with four panels each containing a leaf shaped panel
22.3 cm. diam.

Footnotes

For an equestrian bowl in the David Collection, Copenhagen, see Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in The David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, fig. 123.

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