Lot 5014. A large Iranian fritware bowl, 12th century. H 12.5, diameter 22 cm. Estimated price €400 - €600. Result: €1.054. Courtesy Lempertz.

Turquoise glaze with fine craquelure. A flared bowl on a high footring. Decorated with six braided ridges, above which the rim forms tapering points, and small rosettes in the fields between the ridges. A glued breakage with minor losses to the glaze, traces of sintering.

Literature: Cf. cat. Islamische Keramik, Düsseldorf 1973, no. 166; Fehérvári, Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, London-New York 2000, p. 101, no. 110. 

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