Lot 213
  • 213

A Kashan pierced white ware pottery bowl, Persia, early 13th century

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • pottery
of truncated conical form on a high foot, with straight flaring sides and pierced walls, covered with a transparent colourless glaze, the interior with a pseudo-kufic inscription in cobalt blue below the rim

Provenance

ex-Japanese Private Collection

Condition

small chips and cracks to the rim with minor infill, patch of irridescence to the interior glaze below and around the rim, as viewed
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