A KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOTTLE

Lot 17
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1178400
Lot 17 | A KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOTTLE
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
A KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOTTLE

CENTRAL IRAN, LATE 12TH/EARLY 13TH CENTURY

With rounded body on short foot rising to thin neck and bulbous neck, the body decrotated with panels of arabesque alternated with callgraphic bands, a similar calligraphic band and another of stylised kufic around the top of the body, the neck and mouth with repeated design of roundels and dots below a band of naskh inscription reserved against lustre ground, minor chip to rim, neck reattached, otherwise intact

10 ¼in. (26cm.) high





Provenance

Habib Sabet (1903-1990), Paris and New York

Thence by descent



Inscribed

Around the shoulder, undeciphered.
In the bands down the body, possibly repetitions of Arabic benedictions, al-iqbal al-za'id (?).... 'increasing prosperity(?)....'



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