A NISHAPUR POTTERY BOWL, PERSIA, 10TH CENTURY

Earthenware with white slip painted with colored brown manganese and red clay under a transparent lead-based glaze.
An elegant truncated cone-shaped bowl, similar to the preceding lot.
Smaller and with more contained decoration, the palmette motifs are joined to a ewer in the centre, with the Kufic inscription:
الله الله الله . God
Balances the lower margin. Two winged palmettes and two small flowers complete the composition that is perfectly balanced. The representation of the ewer is not very common for this type of pottery and thus could may well have been used in a ritual context.
29 cm. diam.
10 cm. height

CATALOGUE NOTE A similar pottery bowl at the Louvre Museum