Lot 5008. Two octagonal Iranian fritware bowls, 12th century. Diameter 20.1 cm. Estimated price €1.000 - €1.500. Result: €992. Courtesy Lempertz.

Turquoise glaze with fine craquelure. Modelled vessels on high footrings. Each with eight panels divided by braided ridges, decorated with facing sphinges and two facing horsemen holding a ring. The scene with the two horsemen is an investiture scene deriving from ancient Persian iconography. Inventory numbers. Older, partially crumbling restorations to the rim. Retouches and traces of sintering.

Provenance: Acquired at the auction "Arts d´orient Archéologie Islam", Hotel Drouot, June, 15th, 1988, lot 76 and 77.

Literature: Cf. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London 1976, p. 166, no. 113. 

Lempertz. Asian Art II China, Tibetan/Nepalese Art, 18.06.2017, 10:30, Brussels