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Lot 17

A Kashan lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, early 13th Century

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Kashan lustre pottery Bowl
Persia, early 13th Century

with flaring sides, decorated in a yellowish gold lustre on a white ground, the base with a palmette bearing vine enclosing flying birds, encircled by a band of cursive inscription, the sides divided into panels of palmette interlace alternating with further inscriptions, the exterior with abstract floral motifs
20.6 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Provenance: UK private collection.

The inscriptions comrise a repetition of parts of a benedictory couplet.

Comparison can be drawn with two known lustre bowls, both depicting ducks: an example dated AH 600/ AD 1203-4 was sold at Sotheby's (Arts of the Islamic World, 28th April 2004, lot 85); and and another example in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, dated AH 608/ AD 1211 (Watson, Oliver, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985,pl. F).

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