TWO NISHAPUR MOULDED POTTERY BOWLS

Lot 12
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 3 000
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ID 1178508
Lot 12 | TWO NISHAPUR MOULDED POTTERY BOWLS
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
TWO NISHAPUR MOULDED POTTERY BOWLS

NORTH EAST IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

Each of typical form, the body moulded with a large inscription in kufic against a ground of arabesques with animals, glazed with cobalt-blue and turquoise, the interior plain, on an unglazed foot, each restored

5 7⁄8in. (14.8cm.) and 6in. (15.2cm.) diam.





Provenance

Each excavated Rayy, cobalt blue bowl 1943; the turquoise bowl 1922



Inscribed

The cobalt-blue bowl has fragmentary inscriptions reading wa’l-…‘ada (al-sa’adah?) wa’l-d… wa’l-ki[rama?] …, ‘… and happiness(?) and … and generosity(?) …’



Further Details

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