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Property from the collection of Qajar Prince, Bahram Mirza "Sardar-I-Massoud"
Lot 22R
A sgraffiato pottery bowl Persia or Syria, 14th Century
14 November 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A sgraffiato pottery bowl
Persia or Syria, 14th Century
Persia or Syria, 14th Century
of deep rounded form on a short foot with everted rim, incised and decorated in green and ochre on a cream ground with lobed roundel to the well, the sides with a band containing circle motifs on a ground of scrolling motifs
27.7 cm. diam.
27.7 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of Bahram Mirza "Sardar-i-Massoud" (1885-1916), Paris, thence by descent.
The sgraffiato technique, along with the ochre and green colour scheme of the present lot, was used for a broad period of time across a large area, from 10th Century Persia to 15th Century Italy. Examples of Ayyubid dishes from Syria with a similar palette are in the British Museum, London (1931,0716.1 and 1937,0317.5) but the deeply rounded form of our bowl is more reminiscent of Persian bowls from the Timurid period.
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