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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: Item # 944008

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MUSEUM QUALITY IRANIAN NISHAPUR BOWL
Description: Samanid dynasty of Nishapur, 892-999 A.D.

A huge museum quality ceramic bowl, dating prior to 10th cent. A.D. Earthenware. Outstanding artful decoration in black, green and red on a white basis glace.

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. 28 cm. wide and c. 11 cm. high. Huge bowl for the type and period, very rare!

Condition: Choice! Possible some 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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