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Antiquities, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art: Featuring Selections from the Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi Collection

Antiquities, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art: Featuring Selections from the Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi Collection

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Lot 130: A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL DEPICTING A HORSE AND RIDER, PERSIA, 12TH/ 13TH CENTURY

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of deep rounded form on a splayed foot, decorated in a yellow-brown lustre with a large richly caparisoned horse, the rider seated within a canopy, surrounded by abstract vegetal motifs, the rim with a band of pseudo inscription, the exterior with a series of radiating panels filled with an interlace of tendrils.
For a lustre bowl depicting a horse with similarly ornate trappings and enclosed rider see Oliver Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London 1985, p. 78, Plate 48. Another Kashan lustre bowl depicting a horse and rider is in the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, and has very similar decoration to the exterior (AKM693). 
15.8 cm. diam.