A RARE LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY TOMBSTONE

Lot 36
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Prix de départ
£ 15 000
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Lot 36 | A RARE LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY TOMBSTONE
Valeur estimée
£ 15 000 – 20 000
A RARE LUSTRE AND COBALT-BLUE POTTERY TOMBSTONE
TIMURID IRAN, DATED AH 897 / 1492 AD
The white ground painted over the glaze with extensive brown lustre naskh, narrow light blue borders, the reverse fitted with custom iron mounting bracket
17 ¾ x 9 7/8in. (45 x 25cm.)




Provenance

Acquired by the father of the current owner in London, 1995



Engraved

In the margin in Arabic, 'Oh God bless al-Mustafa Muhammad, and al-Murtada 'Ali, and al-Batul Fatima, and the grandsons al-Hasan and al-Husayn, and Zain'l-'ibad 'Ali, and al-Baqir Muhammad, and al-Sadiq Ja'far, and al-Kazim Musa, and al-Rida Ali, and al-Taqi Muhammad, and al-Naqi Ali, and al-Zaki al-'Askari al-Hasan, and al-Ilujjat al-Qa'im al-Mahdi, may God's blessings, and His peace be upon him and them all'
In the upper panel, Qur'an, XXIX al-'ankabut v.57 followed by, 'The revered al-Murtada, the honoured Mujtaba, al-Sayyid Zain' al-'Abidin ibn al-Murtada the auspicious, al-Sayyid Jala'd-Din Murtada ibn Yahya al-Radawi, may [God] make his grave be fragrant, and paradise his abode; he died after he had lived for 90 years, on Thursday, 18 Rabi' II AH 897/18 February 1492 AD'
In the lower panel in Persian verse, 'Mir Zayn al-'abad, that Radawi, Who was like his grandfather good-natured and the one who put his hair on fire, In .... of God he burnt his head for a hair He was 67 years of age, When he turned his face from the world to paradise'



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