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A SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
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A SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL

PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY

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A SAMANID CONICAL POTTERY BOWL
PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY
On short foot, the white ground of the sides with two panels of elegant sepia kufic inscription each within an lobed band along the rim, the centre with small irregular circle, the exterior plain, repaired breaks and minimal restoration
8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diam.
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拍品专文

The inscription reads: al-mulk li'llah, (Sovreignty belongs to God).

A number of conical bowls with the same inscription in similar calligraphy were excavated at Nishapur (see for example Charles K. Wilkinson, Nishapur Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1974, pl.22, pp.99 and 117).