细节
TWO NISHAPUR POTTERY BOWLS
NORTH EAST IRAN, 10TH CENTURY
Of conical form on short foot, the white ground decorated under the glaze with manganese and ochre pigments, one with a band of thick kufic with heavy serifs below a dotted rim, the other with three abstract lancets between brown pseudo-kufic motifs, both with plain exteriors, the larger broken and reassembled with associated restoration, the smaller intact
9 ½in. (24.1cm.) and 7 ¾in. (19.7cm.) diam.
来源
The larger excavated Village Tepe, Nishapur, before 1949; the smaller Gurgan, 1946
刻印
The bowl with a band of continuous kufic below the rim baraka li-sah[hibi] ... surur wa sa'ada 'Blessing for its owner ... joy and happiness'.
The bowl with lancets containing kufic repetitions of undeciphered words.
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