A MINIATURE SAMANID SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY CALLIGRAPHIC BOWL
EAST PERSIA OR TRANSOXIANA, 11th CENTURY
Estimate: £600 - £800
Auction: Islamic Art | Lots 1 to 66 | 12 June at 10am
Description
with flaring sides, decorated under a transparent glaze in brown and red slip, with a with a wide band of pseudo- kufic repeat script, a large dot in the centre, dotted rim
Dimensions
12.5cm (4 7/8in) diameter
Provenance
Private UK Collection formed in the 1980s/ 1990s.
Footnote
For a similarly decorated bowl in the Al-Sabbah collection, see Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, cat. Ga. 19.