Sale 7263
London
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10 October 2006
Price realised
GBP 9,000
Estimate
A MINA'I POTTERY BOWL IRAN, LATE 12TH CENTURY Of rounded form on short foot, the white interior painted in blue, black, brown, yellow and orange with two confronted riders flanking a tree containing birds, flanked at each side by further figures, a band of reserved stylised kufic around the rim, the exterior with a band of continuous stylised naskh above black arabesque panels, repaired, slight restoration 7 3/8in. (18.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Parish-Watson Collection, New York, (label on underside)
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Exhibited
Exhibition of Persian Art, London, 1931 Exhibition of Persian Art, New York, 1940
The inscription around the exterior contains verses in Persian followed by Arabic benedictions.
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