A KASHAN SILHOUETTE-WARE POTTERY BOWL

CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200

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A KASHAN SILHOUETTE-WARE POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200
Of gently rounded conical form, the interior incised through the black slip with a bold palmette design within further bold similar motifs, panels of stylised inscription around the side, the exterior plain, all covered with a translucent turquoise glaze, one section replaced from a similar bowl, repaired
7¾in. (20cm.) diam.

Provenance

Frances Leventritt, New York, from whose estate sold in these Rooms, 10 October 2006, lot 53

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Lot Essay

A number of Kashan 'silhouette ware' bowls are known decorated with palmettes, but almost all are based on a symmetrical arrangement, usually with four radiating palmettes (Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pls.743B and 748B). The completely unidirectional arrangement found here is very unusual and powerful.

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