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A LARGE KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
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A LARGE KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
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A LARGE KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
The white ground decorated below the glaze in strong lustre, cobalt-blue and turquoise with a radial design based around a central flowerhead and with bands of naskh on lustre ground alternating with elegant arabesque, all against a tight border of scrolls, the rim with borders of blue kufic and white naskh, the exterior with a similar band of naskh reserved against lustre ground and with lustre cusping above and below, repaired break
13 ½in. (34.3cm.) diam.Excavated Kashan, 1934Around the inside of the rim, three Persian quatrains:
‘Oh, you whose will it is to hurt me for years and months’;
‘Oh you, for whose love the sated ones of the world are hungry’;
‘The heart saw in your tresses nothing but seduction’
Arabic verses in the bands radiating from the centreSome countries prohibit or restrict the purchase and/or import of Iranian-origin property. Bidders must familiarise themselves with any laws or shipping restrictions that apply to them before bidding on these lots. For example, the USA prohibits dealings in and import of Iranian-origin “works of conventional craftsmanship” (such as carpets, textiles, decorative objects, and scientific instruments) without an appropriate licence. Christie’s has a general OFAC licence which, subject to compliance with certain conditions, would enable a buyer to import this type of lot into the USA. If you intend to use Christie’s licence, please contact us for further information before you bid.This dish is impressive for its size and completeness. Its aniconic decorative scheme belongs to the third phase of Kashan lustreware design, termed 'the Kashan style' by Oliver Watson, which combined places where the design was drawn on directly with lustre paint and others where the design had been inscribed into a coat of lustre. Structured around a central roundel with radiating poetic inscriptions alternating with palmettes heightened with cobalt blue, this dish can be compared with an example in the Sarikhani collection. That bowl is also of a similar size and has a profile which is similar to the present lot (acc.no. I.CE.2243; Oliver Watson,
Ceramics of Iran, London, 2020, p.231, no.117).
Though the example in the Sarikhani collection also has two rows of calligraphy around the rim, it differs from ours in that they are both executed in a hurried
naskh script, while the inner register on this example is realised in a confident
kufic-style script, filled in with cobalt-blue. Originally a script developed for manuscripts,
kufic had been used in an epigraphic context since the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem by 'Abd al-Malik. Though it had largely fallen out of use as a bookhand by the thirteenth century, it survived in certain contexts. It appears on the rim of a remarkable dish sold as part of a Princely Collection, Sotheby's London, 5 October 2010, lot 76, which was dated by the inscription to Jumada I AH 590/April-May 1194 AD.