A minai pottery bowl, Persia, 12th/ 13th Century

of rounded form on a splayed foot, decorated in polychrome on a blue ground with a six-petaled lotus to the centre surrounded by an interlace of split-palmettes, a band of pseudo-kufic to the rim, a further band of pseudo inscription to the exterior
21.2 cm. diam.

Provenance
Sotheby's, Islamic and Indian Art, 27 April 1995, Lot 35.

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