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FOUR EARLY ANDALUSIAN LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY BOWLS AND ONE DISH
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FOUR EARLY ANDALUSIAN LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY BOWLS AND ONE DISH

VALENCIA, 14-15TH CENTURY

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FOUR EARLY ANDALUSIAN LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY BOWLS AND ONE DISH
VALENCIA, 14-15TH CENTURY
Four bowls of rounded form on short foot, two with heavy cobalt-blue design on white ground, one with brown lustre and blue glaze with central quatrefoil pattern, and one with four blue and brown palmettes radiating from a central cross, the dish on short foot with concentric bands of cobalt-blue decoration, minor chips to rims, one bowl with slight loss of decoration
Bowls: 5 3/8, 5¼, 5 1/8 and 5 3/8in. (13.6, 13.4, 13 and 13.6cm.) diam.; Dish: 8in. (20.2cm.) diam. (5)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

Lot Essay

A very similar bowl to the central example but with six radiating arms is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Cagliari (Giovanni Curatola, Eredità dell'Islam, Venice, 1993, no.198, pp.339-340). For a more detailed discussion of the group to which the present pieces belong, please see Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, Ceramica Spagnola in Italia tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, Viterbo, 1992. Fourteen similar vessels were sold at Sotheby's London, 25 April 1995, lot 51.

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