TWO SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY BOWLS WITH STIPPLED DECORATION Eastern...
TWO SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY BOWLS WITH STIPPLED DECORATION
Eastern Iran, 9th – 10th century
Each of conical shape, on a circular short foot, with straight rim, comprising a larger bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red, brown and yellow slip decoration consisting of an abstract knotwork band to the cavetto and an eight-pointed star to the centre, plain exterior, 15cm diam.; and a smaller bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red and brown slip decoration consisting of a four-pointed star to the centre, extending to the cavetto also filled with stippling, plain exterior except a continuous wave pattern band below the rim, 11.8cm diam.
Provenance: Private UK collection, purchased in Iran in the late 1960s, thence in the family by descent.
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TWO SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY BOWLS WITH STIPPLED DECORATION
Eastern Iran, 9th – 10th century
Each of conical shape, on a circular short foot, with straight rim, comprising a larger bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red, brown and yellow slip decoration consisting of an abstract knotwork band to the cavetto and an eight-pointed star to the centre, plain exterior, 15cm diam.; and a smaller bowl, the earthenware body covered in white slip and painted with a red and brown slip decoration consisting of a four-pointed star to the centre, extending to the cavetto also filled with stippling, plain exterior except a continuous wave pattern band below the rim, 11.8cm diam.
Provenance: Private UK collection, purchased in Iran in the late 1960s, thence in the family by descent.
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