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Lot Essay
Inscription:
Inscription in kufic, largely undeciphered, suggested reading ...shafaha (shafa'a) wa baraka ... '... intercession (?) and blessing...'
Though there has been comparatively little published on unglazed Iranian pottery, the high-sided form of this bowl resembles a mould in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, which is reported to have been excavated in Ghazni in present-day Afghanistan (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, pp.144-5, Cat. Af.6). A fragment of a similarly-shaped mould which was excavated in Nishapur is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That has a similar combination of large kufic letters with small birds in an upper band (acc.no.48.101.6a,b).
Inscription in kufic, largely undeciphered, suggested reading ...shafaha (shafa'a) wa baraka ... '... intercession (?) and blessing...'
Though there has been comparatively little published on unglazed Iranian pottery, the high-sided form of this bowl resembles a mould in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, which is reported to have been excavated in Ghazni in present-day Afghanistan (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, pp.144-5, Cat. Af.6). A fragment of a similarly-shaped mould which was excavated in Nishapur is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That has a similar combination of large kufic letters with small birds in an upper band (acc.no.48.101.6a,b).