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A Samanid slip-painted pottery bowl Nishapur or Samarkand, 10th/ 11th Century image 1
A Samanid slip-painted pottery bowl Nishapur or Samarkand, 10th/ 11th Century image 2
Property from the collection of Qajar Prince, Bahram Mirza "Sardar-I-Massoud"
Lot 30R

A Samanid slip-painted pottery bowl
Nishapur or Samarkand, 10th/ 11th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,800 - £3,500

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A Samanid slip-painted pottery bowl
Nishapur or Samarkand, 10th/ 11th Century

of conical form on a short foot, decorated in yellow and brown with a band of inscription in pseudo-kufic, the well containing further inscriptions
20.6 cm. diam.

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Provenance
The Collection of Bahram Mirza "Sardar-i-Massoud" (1885-1916), Paris, thence by descent.

An example of a Samanid slip-painted pottery bowl sold at Christie's features a similar decorative calligraphic programme (see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian World, 23 October 2007, lot 16).

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