Lot 214
  • 214

A Kashan turquoise-glazed pottery ewer, Persia, 12th century

Estimate
15,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • pottery
of compressed baluster form on a short foot with pinkish body, the sloping shoulder with raised flutes and raised horizontal moulding around the neck, an incised band below the mouth, applied strap handle with thumbpiece, covered with a transparent turquoise glaze stopping short of the foot

Provenance

ex-Japanese private collection

Condition

minor chips and extensive glaze crazing and irridescencee, as viewed
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