EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID LUSTRE POTTERY FRAGMENT
Egypt, 11th century
Comprising the centre of a large bowl or dish, the roundel with a central orange lustre peacock with plant in its mouth flanked by loosely drawn panels, in a cusped border within plain stripe, the underside with loosely drawn roundels divided by simple splashed motifs, repaired clean break
7¼in. (18.5cm.) across

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Lot Essay

The motif of a peacock with a branch in its mouth is one found on a number of Fatimid lustre vessels (Philon, Helen: Early Islamic Ceramics, London, 1980, figs.394, 395, 403, 411 and 413 for example). The overall composition of the present fragment however, with its cusped frame and with the interstices filler, is closest to that of a bowl with a rabbit in the centre, also with a similar branch in its mouth (Philon, op.cit., fig.442). The present lot probably came from a very similar dish with rounded sides and vertical rim.

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