Lot 5005. An Iranian fritware bowl with incised decor, Late 12th - early 13th century. Diameter 20.1 cm. Estimated price €300 - €400. Result: €496. Courtesy Lempertz.

Turquoise glaze with dense craquelure, the rim edged with cobalt blue. A thin-walled, conical vessel on a high footring. The interior rim decorated with a double-bordered palmette fries. Restorations over breakages, minor replacements.

Literature: A similar bowl in the Bumiller Collection, Bamberg, BC-5009; cf. Morgan, in: Grube et alii, Cobalt and Lustre: the First Centuries of Islamic Pottery, London 1994, p. 174, no. 168. 

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