Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
A Fars brass bowl with falconers, Persia, 13th/14th century
Auction Closed
March 31, 12:40 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of rounded form with convex sides, engraved to its centre with inscriptive cartouches between which feature medallions containing falconers and hunters on horseback, on a ground of foliate spirals, with geometric strapwork above and arrow-head details below, interior well with shoal of fish encircling stellar motif
12cm. height; 18.2cm. diam.
Ex-collection Bernard Bottet (1900-71) and his son Bertrand Bottet (1924-94).
Bernard Bottet was a French artist and archeologist. Together with his son Bertrand, they assembled an important collection of artworks spanning across continents and set up as collectors/dealers in the city of Nice. Their collection was dispersed over eight public auctions between 1989 and 2012. The present basin appears in the second inventory created by Bertrand in the mid-1980s on page 58, no.26 "[…] au fond, poissons et oiseaux d'eau"
Bernard Bottet was a French artist and archeologist. Together with his son Bertrand, they assembled an important collection of artworks spanning across continents and set up as collectors/dealers in the city of Nice. Their collection was dispersed over eight public auctions between 1989 and 2012. The present basin appears in the second inventory created by Bertrand in the mid-1980s on page 58, no.26 "[…] au fond, poissons et oiseaux d'eau"
inscriptions
'Perpetual glory and prosperity and happiness and well-being and health and grace and kindness and ease and victory and wealth'
One owner's name in a narrow panel: 'Its owner Shams al-Din ibn Taj al-Din Farsi'
Another owner: 'Its owner, Husayn’
'Perpetual glory and prosperity and happiness and well-being and health and grace and kindness and ease and victory and wealth'
One owner's name in a narrow panel: 'Its owner Shams al-Din ibn Taj al-Din Farsi'
Another owner: 'Its owner, Husayn’