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Lot 21

A rare large Seljuk monochrome pottery Inkwell
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century

Withdrawn
Amended
21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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A rare large Seljuk monochrome pottery Inkwell
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century

of mihrab shape, green glaze, the square end with rectangular aperture and carved with a frieze of diamond-shaped lattice, the top with two domic apertures, one with a hemispherical well
28.5 x 22 x 12.5 cm.

Footnotes

This lot is accompanied by a thermoluminesce analysis report from Oxford Authentication Ltd, which is consistent with the period of manufacture (Sample No. N115b62).

Inkwells or dawat were a symbol or metaphor for the instrument of state with a long history in Islamic Persia. Examples have been preserved in glass and mainly metal, with far fewer extant in pottery, particularly on the scale of the present lot.

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This lot is withdrawn.

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