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Lot 96R

Three Qajar 'Kashan style' lustre pottery star tiles
Persia, 19th Century
(3)

26 October 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,805 inc. premium

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Three Qajar 'Kashan style' lustre pottery star tiles
Persia, 19th Century

each with eight points, decorated in brownish gold lustre on cream grounds, the largest with a central flowerhead surrounded by further foliate motifs, the other two depicting deer amidst foliage, all with borders containing bands of inscriptions in naskhi
the largest 30 cm. diam.(3)

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Provenance
Formerly in a Private French collection and according to family tradition acquired from the Bardo National Museum, Tunisia in 1888, and from Samuel Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) in Paris in the late 19th Century.

Inscriptions: to one, a prayer in Arabic; to the others, the basmalah followed by couplets in Persian.

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