Auction KEW-AU10007 Antiquities, Islamic & Asian Art, and Fine Silver
By Kew Auctions
Apr 10, 2025
8 Chase Road Unit One Chase Centre London, NW10 6QD UK
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LOT 161:

A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL WITH STYLISED VEGETAL DECORATION, PERSIA, 13TH CENTURY

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Start price:
£ 5,500
Estimate :
£8,000 - £12,000
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Auction took place on Apr 10, 2025 at Kew Auctions
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A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL WITH STYLISED VEGETAL DECORATION, PERSIA, 13TH CENTURY
of shallow round form with a flaring rim on a short vertical foot, the fritware body painted in a golden-brown lustre with an opaque tin glaze, decorated with a stellar arabesque to the centre, the rim with a Kufic inscription reserved in lustre with stylised scrolls in the background, the exterior with section decorated with roundels

20.3cm. diam.

inscriptions

'[da]wlah' Wealth

A very similar bowl, also decorated with a central stellar arabesque and a Kufic inscription reserved on lustre, formerly in the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, Chicago.