Lot 2. A Kashan calligraphic lustre pottery tile, Persia, circa 1275-1325; 20.5 by 40cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot sold 25,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.

the fritware body with calligraphic inscription in thuluth moulded in relief, painted underglaze in cobalt blue on an overglaze lustre ground of spiralling foliate tendrils with turquoise highlights, old collection label to reverse

Inscriptions: Qur’an, chapter LXXVI, (al-Insan), part of verse 7.

Note: Examples of calligraphic lustre tiles from Kashan are now in a number of museum collections, notably a particularly close comparable, dated to circa 1275-1325, in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, inv. no. B60P2132. Other examples are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no. 1494:1-1876 and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, inv. no. 50.46.458.

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World, London, 09 avr. 2014