29th Apr, 2022 11:00

Islamic Art - Property of a European Collector Part III

 
  Lot 17
 

A POLYCHROME-PAINTED MINA'I POTTERY BOWL WITH GEOMETRIC STAR-SHAPED DESIGN
Iran, ca. 1180 - 1220

A POLYCHROME-PAINTED MINA'I POTTERY BOWL WITH GEOMETRIC STAR-SHAPED DESIGN
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Iran, ca. 1180 - 1220

Of shallow rounded shape, with a tall straight foot, painted in the classical mina'i palette of turquoise, blue, black, and red against a white ground, the centre decorated with a geometric star design infilled with pairs of birds on different coloured grounds amongst arabesques, a frieze with a cobalt-blue calligraphic Kufic inscription with red dots and stylised turquoise foliage running around the cavetto, the rim with cobalt blue stippling, the outside with a further cobalt blue calligraphic inscription outlined in black in free-flowing naskh script, 19.3cm diam.

Provenance: Christie’s King Street, 23 April 1996, lot 159.

Fragments of a mina'i bowl with a very similar geometric pattern to ours are part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, bequeathed by the collector William Milne Grinnell in 1920 (acc. no. 20.120.124).

Sold for £1,000

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