Enrica Medugno
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Property from the collection of Qajar Prince, Bahram Mirza "Sardar-I-Massoud"
Lot 24R
A Sultanabad underglaze-painted pottery bowl Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
14 November 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,840 inc. premium
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A Sultanabad underglaze-painted pottery bowl
Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
Persia, 13th/ 14th Century
of deep rounded form on a tall foot, decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and black on a white ground with radiating panels variously containing vegetal scrollwork, geometric designs and dot motifs, the exterior with radiating lines, alternately branching towards the rim and overlaid with dot motifs
22.1 cm. diam. max.
22.1 cm. diam. max.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of Bahram Mirza "Sardar-i-Massoud" (1885-1916), Paris, thence by descent.
A very similar bowl is in the Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City (see Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, p. 388, cat. Q.18). A further example of a Sultanabad pottery bowl featuring similar decorative elements is in the collection of the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait (see Géza Fehérvári, Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, London, 2000, p. 222, No. 286).
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