Arts of the Islamic World, including Fine Carpets and Textiles

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Lot 79
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a Large Samarkand slip-painted bowl with stylised palmettes, CENTRAL ASIA, 10TH CENTURY

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

of truncated conical form on short foot, decorated with alternating palmette and rosette designs in burnt ochre and dark brown on a cream slip

Catalogue Note

A plate with similar decorative motifs is to be found in the Keir Collection, see Grube, E., Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London 1976, no.59.