Lot 161: A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL WITH STYLISED VEGETAL DECORATION, PERSIA, 13TH CENTURY
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of shallow round form with a flaring rim on a short vertical foot, the fritware body painted in a golden-brown lustre with an opaque tin glaze, decorated with a stellar arabesque to the centre, the rim with a Kufic inscription reserved in lustre with stylised scrolls in the background, the exterior with section decorated with roundels
20.3cm. diam.
inscriptions
‘[da]wlah’ Wealth
A very similar bowl, also decorated with a central stellar arabesque and a Kufic inscription reserved on lustre, formerly in the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, Chicago.
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