Lot 6
A FINE AND INTACT KASHAN TURQUOISE POTTERY BOWL
PERSIA, 13TH CENTURY
Auction: 09 December 2026 from 14:00 GMT
Description
of conical form on a short foot, decorated in black under a turquoise glaze with a quatrefoil motif to the centre surrounded by four short naskh inscriptions in black above comprising Persian verses, followed by a moulded narrow band of repeat knot design, the edge of the rim with a band of naskh inscriptions comprising Persian verses in turquoise on a black ground, the exterior of the rim decorated with a cusped band, followed by two black lines
Dimensions
16.8cm diameter, 7.2cm high
Provenance
Formerly, private London collection.
Footnote
In the centre, a variation on a quatrain found frequently on ceramics of the period, see for example, the poem “I carried your love to the heart of my soul etc.”, in O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey E. Plotnick Collection, 2007. cat no. 92, p. 141. The same poem along with a further quatrain is repeated around the inside of the rim.