拍品专文
Bernard Bottet was an archaeologist and painter, and with his son he assembled a broad collection of works of art before setting up as a dealer in Nice. The collection was dispersed between 1989 and 2012 over eight public auctions. The Bottets created several inventories of their collection in the 1980s and this bowl can be identified in the second inventory, "[...] au fond, poissons et oiseaux d'eau" (Bernard Bottet and Bertrand Bottet, Objets de hasard. Collection Bottet et a divers amateurs, Encheres Rive Gauche, 26 March 2012, p. 58, no.26).
The convex shape of this bowl is one of the two standard Fars types as identified by A.S. Melikian-Chirvani (Islamic Metalwork for the Iranian World, 8th-18th centuries, London, 1982, p.149, fig.55). Additionally, the bowl bears not one but two cartouches containing the names of later owners, including one which has been very carefully incised against a hatched ground typical of Safavid period decoration.