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Lot Essay
The incomplete inscription piped under the glaze around the rim reads: .... al-muluk al-sultan al-a'zam shahanshah al-mu'azzam malik riqab al-umam sultan al-salatin al-'arab wa al-'ajam .....' (..... of kings, the most great Sultan, the Great King of Kings, Dominant over nations, Sultan of the sultans of the Arabs and Persians ........)
It is very rare to find a royal dedication on pottery of this period.
The same decorative scheme is found on a magnificent mina'i conical bowl formerly in the Collection of Sir Morimer Schiff (Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.664). In that example the central figures of Bahram Gur and Azada are also surrounded by a band of horsemen with a single groom, but on the interior of the bowl rather than as here, on the exterior.
It is very rare to find a royal dedication on pottery of this period.
The same decorative scheme is found on a magnificent mina'i conical bowl formerly in the Collection of Sir Morimer Schiff (Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.664). In that example the central figures of Bahram Gur and Azada are also surrounded by a band of horsemen with a single groom, but on the interior of the bowl rather than as here, on the exterior.