ID 1178430
Lot 14 | A KASHAN MOULDED LUSTRE AND BLUE POTTERY BOWL
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 000
CENTRAL IRAN, MID 12TH/EARLY 13TH CENTURY
Of rounded form on tall foot, the body moulded with a band of thuluth calligraphy, decorated under the glaze with a faded lustre and cobalt-blue lettering between plain bands, the interior with a heavily-faded lustre pattern enclosing a cobalt-blue and turquoise floral central motif, repaired breaks, small areas of restoration
7 ¼in. (18.4cm.) diam.
Provenance
Excavated Sesuk, 1934
Inscribed
Around the exterior, al-‘izz al-da’im wa’l-iqbal al-za’id wa’l-nasr al-ghalib wa’l-ra’y al-thaqib wa’l-jadd al-sa‘id wa’l-dawla wa’l-sa‘ada wa’l-salama fi sana ‘Perpetual glory and increasing prosperity and triumphant victory and penetrating judgement and rising good fortune and wealth and happiness and well-being in year …’
Further Details
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Medium: | Ceramic |
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Historical era: | Ilkhanate dynasty |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Ceramic |
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Historical era: | Ilkhanate dynasty |
Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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Conditions of purchase | Conditions of purchase |
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