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Lot 27

A large Nishapur buffware pottery Bowl
Persia, 10th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

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A large Nishapur buffware pottery Bowl
Persia, 10th Century

of deep rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in yellow, green and manganese on a natural ground with a mounted warrior surrounded by birds, quadrupeds, floral motifs and pseudo-inscriptions
32 cm. diam.

Footnotes

For a similar buffware pottery bowl decorated with a rider in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Charles K. Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, p. 45, plate 62.

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