A Kashan silhouette ware pottery jug
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century
of globular form on a short foot, with cylindrical neck and rounded handle, the decoration carved through a black slip under a transparent glaze, the upper body with foliate scrollwork, below a band of panels radiating from the base, the neck with vertical lines
13.8 cm. high
Footnotes:
Provenance
The Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo.
Poulin Le Fur, 19 September 2000, lot 163.
Private Belgian collection, acquired at Mansour Gallery, London, in 2001, and thence by descent.
Christie's, Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Works from the Simon Digby Collection, 7 April 2011, lot 60.

For a comparable calligraphic jug sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 5 April 2011, lot 117.

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