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

A calligraphic pottery dish, Eastern Persia or Transoxiana, 10th century

Auction Closed

March 30, 12:47 PM GMT

Estimate

26,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

of rounded form on short foot, with flaring rim, the earthenware body decorated in white slip with a single band of dark brown Kufic calligraphy, the exterior plain

31cm. diam.

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inscriptions

‘Piety’

This dish can be associated with the ceramic production of Nishapur and Samarqand in the tenth and eleventh centuries. This form, with a broad sloping rim, has been excavated in Nishapur and it is rarer compared to a more abrupt and sharp transition from the centre to the rim which is common to most of the wares of the period (see Wilkinson 1973, p.105, no.58). A very similar dish decorated with a close thick band of Kufic and a central dot was sold in these rooms, 13 October 2004, lot 68.