Lot 167. A Kashan lustre pottery dish, Persia, 13th Century; 31.8 cm. diam. Estimate £3,000 - 5,000. Sold for £ 3,375 (€ 3,848). © Bonhams 2001-2018

of shallow form with flaring rim on a splayed foot, decorated in a brownish gold lustre with a central roundel containing a fox on a riverbank beneath a tree surrounded by a band of inscriptions interspersed by foliate motifs and a further band containing radiating panels of abstract vegetal motifs, the rim with a band of inscription, the exterior with concentric bands and radiating panels of abstract vegetal motifs, Emanouel Galleries label to base.

Provenance: Private European Collection.

Inscriptions: to the walls, parts of a couplet from Firdausi's Shahnama: be-khor [har-cheh] dari [fozuni be-deh]to ranjideh-'i bahr-e doshman maneh, 'Eat whatever you have, and give excess away, If you are vexed, do not put it on the account of the enemy'; to the rim, undeciphered.

Bonhams. ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART INCLUDING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART, 24 Apr 2018, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET