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Lot 336

An Ilkhanid lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, late 13th/14th Century

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

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An Ilkhanid lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, late 13th/14th Century

with convex sides, decorated in yellowish lustre and cobalt-blue with eight radiating panels, the panels alternately with the figure of a bird reserved against foliage, and a band of reserved foliage around the rim, the exterior with a frieze of impressed ribs with bands of inscription and leaves
22.2 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Robert Strauss Collection.

The inscription is: "Perpetual Glory and Prosperity and Goodness and Glory...Piercing...Firm...and Rising Good-fortune and".

This bowl is one of the finest pieces of Ilkhanid lustre to have survived. Comparison can be made with a bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum that has been published both by Arthur Lane (Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1947, pl. 64A) and Oliver Watson (Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985).

The Victoria and Albert Museum example, which is also divided into eight decorative panels, is painted with the figure of a fox alternating with kufic inscriptions and chain ornament. Both examples share a similar shape and have a frieze of raised ribs around the exterior.

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