A KASHAN COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL

Lot 8
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 8 | A KASHAN COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
A KASHAN COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL

CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY

Of conical form, the white ground decorated under the glaze in dark lustre and cobalt-blue with a quatrefoil design formed of naskh bands alternated with arabesque design on scrolling ground, with border of white naskh incised through the lustre ground, the exterior with repeating large roundels, repaired breaks

8 5⁄8in. (21.9cm.) diam.





Provenance

Excavated Kashan, 1934



Inscribed

Around the inside of the rim, two Persian quatrains: ‘Oh, you whose will it is to hurt me for years and months’;
‘I carried your love to the heart of my soul’
In the bands radiating from the centre, repeats of ‘I carried your love to the heart of my soul’



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