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

A Kashan lustre bowl with stylised vegetal decoration, Persia, 13th century

Auction Closed

March 30, 12:47 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

of shallow round form with a flaring rim on a short vertical foot, the fritware body painted in a golden-brown lustre with an opaque tin glaze, decorated with a stellar arabesque to the centre, the rim with a Kufic inscription reserved in lustre with stylised scrolls in the background, the exterior with section decorated with roundels

20.3cm. diam.

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inscriptions

'[da]wlah' Wealth

A very similar bowl, also decorated with a central stellar arabesque and a Kufic inscription reserved on lustre, formerly in the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, Chicago, was sold in these rooms, 3 October 2012, lot 161.