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Lot 26

A large slip-painted pottery dish
Samarkand, 10th Century

14 November 2023, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A large slip-painted pottery dish
Samarkand, 10th Century

of shallow form on a short foot, rising gently to a slightly everted rim, decorated in manganese and tomato-red on a white ground with a central rosette formed from palmettes and split-palmettes, the rim with a band of inscription in floriated kufic
36.7 cm. diam.

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired by the vendor's father in the 1970s.

Inscriptions: al-jud min akhlaq ahl ... li-sahibihi, 'Generosity is a disposition of the dwellers of Paradise... to its owner'.

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