A Kashan underglaze-painted pottery bowl
Persia, 13th Century
of rounded form on a short foot, decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise, black and manganese on a white ground, the interior with a central roundel to the well containing geometric interlace, the hexagonal interstices with rosettes, the roundel surrounded by palmettes and crossing lines of inscription, the rim with a band of square panels containing palmettes, the exterior with paired lines and a band of geometric designs to the rim
21.4 cm. diam.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Francis Barillet collection, Paris.
Private Belgian collection, acquired at the Palais des Congres, Paris, in February 2000 (lot 204), and thence by descent.
Christie's, Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Works from the Simon Digby Collection, 7 April 2011, lot 68.

Inscriptions: including two Persian quatrains, one attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (see kulliyyat-e shams, edited by B. Foruzanfar, vol. 4, Teheran, 1342 sh. p. 239, quatrain no, 1422), found on a number of 13th century pieces including one in the Matossian Collection dated AH 613/ AD 1216-17 (see M. Bahrami, Gurgan Faiences, Cairo 1949, p. 120, pl. LXXI-II); and two common benedictory couplets, one from Firdawsi's Shahnameh; another by Daqiqi.

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