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A Samanid calligraphic slip-painted pottery Bowl. East Persia, 10th Century

A Samanid calligraphic slip-painted pottery Bowl. East Persia, 10th Century composed of fragments mounted to form a bowl, painted in manganese on a white ground with inscriptions in kufic. 33.5 cm. diam. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 Footnote: Inscriptions...

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Tags: bowl, 10th century, Persia, Samanid, calligraphic slip-painted pottery

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7 avril 2009

A moulded glass Bowl . Persia, 10th/ 11th Century

A moulded glass Bowl . Persia, 10th/ 11th Century in a dark bluish-green tone, with a tooled rim on straight flaring walls and pushed-in base with a conical kick and pontil mark underneath, blown into a mould decorated with vertical ribbing sandwiching...

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Tags: bowl, glass, Persia, 10th 11th Century

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7 avril 2009

A glass Perfume Bottle. Syria, 7th-9th Century

A glass Perfume Bottle. Syria, 7th-9th Century free-blown in greenish-colourless glass, the funnel mouth with a rounded rim and hollow flange on an elongated ovoid body tapering to a knob-like base, the upper part decorated with two thick vertical pincered...

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Tags: glass, Syria, 7th-9th Century, Perfume Bottle

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7 avril 2009

An Abbasid moulded glass Bottle with Figures. Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th-11th Century

An Abbasid moulded glass Bottle with Figures. Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th-11th Century made in green glass with bluish tinge, the funnel neck with cut and smoothed rim on a body blown into an octagonal mould, each panel decorated with a figure with a large...

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Tags: bottle, glass, Mesopotamia, Persia, 8th-11th Century, Abbasid

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7 avril 2009

A rare stemmed glass Goblet Persia or Syria, 10th - 13th Centuries

A rare stemmed glass Goblet Persia or Syria, 10th - 13th Centuries finely blown in a yellowish-colourless glass, the tall rounded funnel bowl on a slender solid stem and splayed foot with a rounded edge, the bowl decorated with three horizontal trails...

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Tags: glass, Syria, Persia, 10th - 13th Centuries, Goblet

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25 mars 2009

Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World Sale To Be Highlighted by Rare Mamluk Glass Bucket

The Rothschild Bucket, estimate £600,000 – 800,000. Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- On April 1st 2009 Sotheby’s London is to sell one of the most remarkable Mamluk enamelled glass buckets left in private hands, in its biannual Arts of the Islamic World sale....

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Tags: Mamluk, Rothschild, Bucket

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21 février 2009

"Legacy of Shah' Abbas" @ The British Museum

Detail of Shah' Abbas as depicted on the wall of Chihil Sutun Palace, Isfahan, c. AD 1647. C. The Trustees of The British Museum. Photo: Ebrahim Khadem Bayat. LONDON.- The British Museum just opened the first major exhibition to explore the rule and legacy...

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Tags: Iran, Isfahan, Safavid Dynasty, Shah 'Abbas

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17 février 2009

The Pearl Carpet of Baroda in sale at Sotheby's in Doha

The Pearl Carpet of Baroda. Bidding on this will start around US$5 million but is expected to rise considerably higher. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it is to sell the Pearl Carpet of Baroda, one of the most extraordinary...

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Tags: India, Baroda, Carpet, Taj Mahal

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1 février 2009

Victoria & Albert Museum Announces New International Art Prize

Sevan Biçakçi, Bird Palace, 2005 LONDON.- The V&A announced a new £25,000 international art prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic traditions of craft and design. The Jameel Prize aims to raise awareness of the thriving interaction...

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Tags: Afruz Amighi, Camille Zakharia, Hassan Hajjaj, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Reza Abedini, Sevan Biçakçi, Susan Hefuna

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14 décembre 2008

Panneau à la scène de polo Ispahan, 18e siècle.

Panneau à la scène de polo Ispahan, 18e siècle. Panneau carré de neuf carreaux de revêtement superposés sur trois rangs, décoré en « cuerda seca » et polychromie sur fond jaune d'une scène de polo animée par quatre cavaliers. La bordure, à fond bleu,...

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Tags: safavid, 18e siècle, Ispahan

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