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IMPORTANT ISLAMIC CERAMIC BOWL FROM NISHAPUR browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: item # 940500 Please refer to our stock # #0027 when inquiring.
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| Samanid dynasty of Nishapur, 892-999 A.D. A huge museum quality ceramic bowl, dating prior to 10th cent. A.D. Earthenware, engobe, underglaze slip-painted. The glaze is with a mulitude of small crackles but no defects. Attractive decoration with kufic letters in interiour bands, not translated. Eight-rayed star in the center and decoration in black, green and red. Bowls including bold black inscriptions in the so-called kufic angular calligraphy were apparently produced in the important ceramic centers of Nishapur in easternIran. The text often contains a proverb in Arabic or a series of wishes. This large bowl, which was used to serve food, is one of the most accomplished works of the type. The bowl represents the first revival of the traditional art due to the rise of the native Islamic dynasty of the Samanids. A most important bowl that shows the true glory of the simple artful style that owes much to the Sassanian art and to the earlier cultures of the area. Size: c. 31-32 cm. wide and c. 12 cm. high. Huge bowl for the type and period, very rare! Condition: Choice! Minor restoration, early Islamic ceramics of this type are always restored to some degree. In any case nice preservation for the type of item and period! Provenance: Danish Private Collection. | ||
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