ABBASID IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY

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A SAMARRA LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
ABBASID IRAQ, 9TH CENTURY
The interior of the bowl divided into quarters, each decorated with three round motifs against a dotted lustre ground, the rim with repeating hemispherical pattern in red and brown, the exterior with five large roundels filled with small dashes against a ground of lustre dashes, repaired breaks
8 ¼in. (21cm.) diam.

Provenance

Excavated Tepe Madreseh, Nishapur, early 20th century
With Ayoub Rabenou, New York, by 1970

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Lot Essay

A polychrome lustre bowl with similar wheel motif decoration is in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait (CER46TSR; published Geza Fehervari, Ceramics of the Islamic world in the Tareq Rajab Museum, London, 2000, p.44, no.30). Another is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (acc.no. C.46-1952).

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