A LARGE SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
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A LARGE SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL

CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY

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A LARGE SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY
On short foot, the white interior with a bold and elegant black kufic inscription around the sides, the centre with a small black dot with an incised cross through the middle, the exterior plain, repaired breaks
14in. (35.6cm.) diam.
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拍品專文

The inscription reads: Baraka wa yumn wa ni'ma li-sahibihi (Blessing and Good Fortune and [God's] Grace to its Owner).

This unsually large and well-preserved Samanid slip painted pottery bowl uses the simplicity and particularly the strength of the calligraphy to create a very powerful composition. As Oliver Watson notes, the best bowls of this type are "..... of the simplest materials, they are most beautifully made - enormous bowls, precisely thrown and turned to a thinness rarely matched elsewhere in earthenwares....... they are breathtaking to handle. The sophistication and quality of the design also sets them apart: simple lines of calligraphy, in script of a quality that matches the best in any medium of the period .... the telling use of empty space and the subtlety of the rhythm and weight of the calligraphy put them, in spite of their humble materials, into an artistic class higher than any ceramic so far discussed" (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, the al-Sabah Collection, London, 2004, p.205).