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LARGE CERAMIC ISLAMIC CALIGRAPHIC BOWL browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: Item # 945928
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Description: A large ceramic food bowl with black and creamy white glaze, dating c. 9th.-10th. cent. A.D. Ceramic food bowl, Earthenware, engobe, underglaze slip-painted. The glaze is with a mulitude of small crackles but no defects - very convincing antiquity! Wares 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. Inscriptions figure prominently in the decoration of objects and buildings throughout the history of Islamic art. Yet it is in Samanid ware, such as this one, that they were used with an unequalled purity and power, both as calligraphy and to enhance the object they decorate. 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 piece 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. 242 mm. wide and c. 98 mm. high. Condition: Superb condition for type and period. Possible some light restoring, but it looks unrestored in hand. |
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