CENTRAL IRAN, LATE 12TH CENTURY

细节

A MINA'I CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, LATE 12TH CENTURY
On vertical foot, the interior with a central moulded roundel depicting Bahram Gur and Azada on a camel set against a blue ground, the sides plain, a band of moulded naskh inscription around the rim, the exterior also enamelled and moulded with a band of trotting winged horses and one human figure, repaired, restoration
9½in. (24.3cm.) diam.

注意事项

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拍品专文

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.