Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
An Abbasid tin glazed pottery bowl, Mesopotamia, 9th century
Auction Closed
March 30, 12:47 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, the earthenware body decorated with cobalt blue with opacified tin glaze with two lines of calligraphy and four centrifugal splashes of green, the exterior plain
4.5cm. height; 14.5cm. diam.
inscriptions
‘Felicity’
This delicate bowl is part of a group which for the first time incorporated calligraphy as a decorative motif; the earthenware body is rendered whiter thanks to a tin-opacified glaze, which, along with the use of cobalt blue and green splashes, recalls contemporaneous Chinese wares. A bowl with a benedictory inscription and similar green splashes is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, inv.no.30.112.46, two others were sold in these rooms, 9 April 2008, lot 77 and 79.