NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY

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A LARGE NISHAPUR POTTERY BOWL
NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY
Of conical form, the white ground decorated with a sepia kufic inscription around the rim, the reverse plain, repaired breaks, small areas of restoration
14 ¾in. (37.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Excavated Sabz Pushan, Nishapur, before 1949

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

The impressive size of the bowl, together with the confident calligraphy that decorates it, is reminiscent of the famous bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (acc.no. 65.106.2) or a fragment in the Sarikhani Collection (acc.no. I.CE.2224D, published by Oliver Watson, Ceramics of Iran, London, 2020, p.104, no.43). In his entry on the Sarikhani fragment, Watson notes that this stark style of script is not generally found at Nishapur, where a more calligraphic style is generally preferred, and more commonly seen on wares excavated in Tashkent and Samarkand. The fact that this bowl was excavated in Nishapur, however, suggests that this distinction may not be so pronounced.

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