Treasures of Time: A Collection of Antiquities, Islamic & Chinese Art

A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL WITH STYLISED VEGETAL DECORATION, PERSIA, 13TH CENTURY

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Start price: £5,500

Estimated price: £8,000 - £12,000

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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.

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.