A TIMURID TURQUOISE AND BLACK POTTERY BOWL

PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST IRAN, 3RD QUARTER 15TH CENTURY

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A TIMURID TURQUOISE AND BLACK POTTERY BOWL
PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST IRAN, 3RD QUARTER 15TH CENTURY
On short foot with rounded sides and slightly flaring rim, painted in black and turquoise, the centre with a large rosette surrounded on four sides with cusped palmettes containing stylised floral sprays, set on a black ground with scrolls, the cavetto with a band of strapwork and a pair of turquoise bands, the exterior with a band of chevrons containing split leaves, the underside of the foot with old collection labels, repaired breaks
8 5/8in. (21.8cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This bowl relates closely to a dish in the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale in Rome which bears an inscription that is dated AH 873/1468-9 AD (Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason and Gauvin A. Bailey, Tamerlane's Tableware, Costa Mesa, California, and Ontario, 1996, pls.51 and col.pl.XI). Another dish in the same technique but with slightly less similar design, now in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, is dated AH 885/1480-81 AD (Golombek, Mason and Bailey, op.cit., pls.50 and col.pl.X). On the basis of an analysis of the clay, Golombek, Mason and Bailey attribute the group to Nishapur.

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