Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
AN ABBASID TIN-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL, IRAQ, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
AN ABBASID TIN-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL, IRAQ, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
the rounded body with everted rim and short foot, decorated in cobalt blue in an opacified tin glaze with a central six-petalled rosette with hatched border sprouting stylised palmettes
20.6cm. diam.
A similar bowl, also featuring a border of stylised sprouting palmettes, is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (inv. no. M.73.5.133).