Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets

Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets

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A fine minai pottery bowl depicting camels, Persia, late 12th-early 13th century

Auction Closed

March 31, 12:40 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

fritware, body with straight flaring sides on a short foot, decorated over the glaze in greyish-blue, turquoise, red, and black outlines, the central design with tree flanked by two seated cross-legged figures, the cavetto with six camels between leafy fronds, stylised inscription to rim, the exterior with a band of pseudo-calligraphy


9.5cm. height; 21.7cm. diam. 

Ex-private collection, Japan, 1960s.
The subject of camels on minai-ware is rare, and comparable examples are in museum institutions such as The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, inv. no.25.387. Another bowl in the Sarikhani Collection features a camel at its centre, London, inv. no.I.CE.2084 (O. Watson, Ceramics of Iran: Islamic Pottery from the Sarikhani Collection, Yale University Press, 2020, p.282, no.139).