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A Nishapur slip-painted pottery bowl Persia, 10th Century

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A Nishapur slip-painted pottery bowl Persia, 10th Century

Item Details

Description

A Nishapur slip-painted pottery bowl
Persia, 10th Century
of conical form on a short foot, decorated in manganese and green on a cream ground, the interior with a roundel to the well containing a bird on a ground of circular motifs, the roundel encircled by pseudo-inscriptions, the rim with a band of geometric designs
21.1 cm. diam.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private Belgian collection, acquired at Mansour Gallery, London, in November 2000, and thence by descent.
Christie's, Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Works from the Simon Digby Collection, 7 April 2011, lot 29.

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