A KASHAN TURQUOISE COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL

Lot 6
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 8 820
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Lot 6 | A KASHAN TURQUOISE COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
A KASHAN TURQUOISE COBALT-BLUE AND LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
The white ground painted under the glaze in lustre, turquoise and cobalt-blue, the central roundel with a prowling lion and a fish, the cavetto with a band of lustre naskh on a white ground, the rim with a band of lustre kufic interrupted by four roundels, the exterior with repeated roundels, repaired breaks
9in. (22.9cm.) diam.




Provenance

Excavated Kashan, 1934
With Ayoub Rabenou, New York, by 1970



Engraved

In naskh around the cavetto, a couplet from the Shahnama of Firdawsi; 'You leave your memory good or bad/ As far as you can do not sow the seeds of ill';
A benedictory couplet, 'May the creator of this world protect, The owner of this bowl wherever he may be' (see Oya Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory, New Haven and London 2007, p. 99);
A quatrain of Kamal al-Din Isma'il (d. 1237), 'We started once more to act in the manner of the drunkard, We recited four times "God is Greatest" for the five prayers, Wherever there is a goblet you will find us, our neck stretched out to it like a wine flask.'
In kufic around the rim, 'Perpetual glory and increasing prosperity, perpetual glory and … perpetual glory, prosperity … triumphant victory, wealth …’



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