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Lot 333

An important lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, dated Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD

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

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An important lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, dated Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD

with slightly concave flaring sides, decorated in golden lustre with a central roundel reserved with two seated figures, scratched commas in the background, the sides with a frieze of bands with a scale pattern and serpent heads, a solid band with scratched foliage in between, all between two bands with a scratched inscription and a further band of inscription, the exterior with a frieze of reserved palmettes and a band of inscription
27.8 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Exhibited:
Exhibition of Persian Art, New York, 1940.

The inscription of the date reads: "Jumadi al-akhar, six hundred and three (January-February, 1207)".

This magnificent bowl which was included at the seminal exhibited of Persian art in New York in 1940, is important for the fact that it is dated. It is decorated in Watson's "Kashan style" of the first quarter of the 13th Century, and the date of Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD, supports Watsons proposed chronology (Oliver Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985, pp. 88-109).

For a bowl with a similar serpent frieze around the sides, dated AH 607/ AD 1210, see Mehdi Bahrami, Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl. LXIII.

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