* A COBALT BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE POTTERY BOWL
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Kashan, Iran, 12th - 13th century

Of typical shallow rounded shape, resting on a short splayed unglazed foot, the white stonepaste body painted in underglaze cobalt blue and black pigments and covered in transparent glaze, the centre decorated with a lobed medallion with two black vegetal sprays, the cavetto with spotted leaves motif amidst stylised rosette and vegetal sprays, the exterior with vertical bands of stylised black vegetal sprays interspersed with splashed cobalt blue lines, 19cm diam. and 9.5cm high.