Lot Essay
Inscriptions:
Around the inside of the rim part of a Persian benedictory quatrain: ‘May your wealth and glory always increase, May your prosperity surpass all limits, So whatever reaches your palate from this bowl …” [For the full poem, see Oya Pancaroğlu, Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, New Haven, 2007, p. 143.];
Also are repeats of part of a Persian benedictory couplet: “Protect [O Creator of the World], the owner [of this bowl, wherever he may be]”
Excerpts from the same verses are found around the interior of the base.
Two similar confronted birds on a ground of tight scrolls are also found on a bowl, dated to AH 614/1217 AD, formerly in the collection of Clement N. Ades and now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C160-1977; Dr. Mehdi Bahrami¸ Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl.LI).
Around the inside of the rim part of a Persian benedictory quatrain: ‘May your wealth and glory always increase, May your prosperity surpass all limits, So whatever reaches your palate from this bowl …” [For the full poem, see Oya Pancaroğlu, Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, New Haven, 2007, p. 143.];
Also are repeats of part of a Persian benedictory couplet: “Protect [O Creator of the World], the owner [of this bowl, wherever he may be]”
Excerpts from the same verses are found around the interior of the base.
Two similar confronted birds on a ground of tight scrolls are also found on a bowl, dated to AH 614/1217 AD, formerly in the collection of Clement N. Ades and now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C160-1977; Dr. Mehdi Bahrami¸ Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl.LI).