Canalblog
Editer l'article Suivre ce blog Administration + Créer mon blog
Publicité
Alain.R.Truong
Alain.R.Truong
Publicité
Visiteurs
Depuis la création 50 862 150
Archives
Newsletter
Alain.R.Truong
29 décembre 2019

A large Abbasid tin-glazed dish, possibly attributable to Muhammad al-Salah, Mesopotamia, 9th century

2010_CKS_07871_0083_000(a_large_abbasid_tin-glazed_dish_possibly_attributable_to_muhammad_al-s)

Lot 83. A large Abbasid tin-glazed dish, possibly attributable to Muhammad al-Salah, Mesopotamia, 9th century; 3 7/8in. (25cm.) diamEstimate GBP 35,000 - GBP 40,000. Price realised GBP 43,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010. 

Of rounded form with everted lip on short foot, the pale interior with a design of four cobalt-blue fan-like palmettes around a central dot, repaired breaks, small areas of restoration.

Note: The production of opaque white glazed wares in Iraq in the late 8th or 9th century signifies the beginning of a widespread tradition that spread across the Islamic world and eventually also into Europe where opaque white glazed wares dominated fine-quality ceramic production for many centuries. The present bowl is a particularly elegant and precisely drawn example of this early Abbasid ceramic production.

Two bowls are published which share a very similar four-palmette design but where this motif borders a central stylised kufic inscription with a blessing to the owner and a maker's signature. In both cases the inscription reads baraka li sahibihi 'amal Muhammad al-Sala (blessings to the owner, the work of Muhammad al-Sala). One of these bowls is in the Keir Collection (Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, p. 39, no. 7). The other is in the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Munich (inv. nr. 28-8-2, published, Islamische Keramik, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1973, p. 35, no. 24). In the latter example the name was read Muhammad al-Sigar. It is possible that the present bowl is the work of the same potter, who became accomplished in and was known for drawing this fan-like palmette motif. A very similar bowl with precisely the same decoration and attributed to Muhammad al-Salah was sold at Sotheby's, 8 October 2008, lot 64.

Christie'sArt of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, London, 5 October 2010

Publicité
Publicité
Commentaires
Publicité