A FARS BRASS BOWL SOUTH IRAN, LATE 13TH OR EARLY...
A FARS BRASS BOWL
SOUTH IRAN, LATE 13TH OR EARLY 14TH CENTURY
The body decorated with a central band of cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions against a scrolling vegetal ground alternating with roundels containing falconers on horseback, a band of braided decoration and one of foliate meander above, palmette and dart decoration below, a later owner's mark in a cartouche near the base, the interior with fish and birds around a central sunburst, no silver remaining
4 ¾in. (12cm.) high; 11 3/8in. (29cm.) diam.
Provenance
Bernard Bottet (1900-71) and his son Bertrand Bottet (1924-94) (numbered 26 on page 58 of the Bottet inventory),
Objets de hasard. Collection Bottet et a divers amateurs, Encheres Rive Gauche, 26 March 2012, lot 151
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A FARS BRASS BOWL
SOUTH IRAN, LATE 13TH OR EARLY 14TH CENTURY
The body decorated with a central band of cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions against a scrolling vegetal ground alternating with roundels containing falconers on horseback, a band of braided decoration and one of foliate meander above, palmette and dart decoration below, a later owner's mark in a cartouche near the base, the interior with fish and birds around a central sunburst, no silver remaining
4 ¾in. (12cm.) high; 11 3/8in. (29cm.) diam.
Provenance
Bernard Bottet (1900-71) and his son Bertrand Bottet (1924-94) (numbered 26 on page 58 of the Bottet inventory),
Objets de hasard. Collection Bottet et a divers amateurs, Encheres Rive Gauche, 26 March 2012, lot 151
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