CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200

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A KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOTTLE
CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200
The spherical body on short slightly spread foot rising to tall tubular neck, with a wide collar from which extends the straight handle, the body decorated with a large band of bold kufic against a background of tight scrolls, a band of white naskh below and the underside with a series of large roundels, another calligraphic register runs close to the neck, intact, slight surface iridescence
7in. (17.8cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Round the body in cursive: a quatrain in Persian, followed by a benedictory couplet in Arabic and a benedictory couplet in Persian. For similar Persian inscriptions, see Ernst J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London, 1994, cat. no. 277, inside round the wall and outside. The Arabic translates: "The good remains no matter how much time passes; And evil is more wicked than you could take" (quoted in Kalila wa Dimna, edited by M. Minovi, Tehran, 1361, p. 407.

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