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IRANIAN FOOD BOWL FROM NISHAPUR, 900-1000 A.D. browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: item # 941040 Please refer to our stock # #0035 when inquiring.
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| Samanid dynasty of Nishapur, 892-999 A.D. A huge museum quality ceramic bowl. Earthenware. Attractive decoration with simplified kufic letters in interiour bands. Decoration in black, green and red on a white basis. Bowls including bold black inscriptions in the so-called kufic angular calligraphy were produced in the important ceramic centers of Nishapur in eastern Iran. 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, but with decorative letters only. 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 Iran. Size: c. 29 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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