A BLACK-PAINTED OPAQUE WHITE-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL PROPERTY FROM THE STEPHEN KEYNES COLLECTION Nishapur, Iran, 10th century Of conical shape, with straight rim, on a short circular foot, the earthenware body covered in opaque white tin-based slip and painted in manganese black with a stylised bird to the centre and four pseudo-calligraphic inscriptions to the rim, 24.6cm diam. Provenance: Stephen Keynes (1927 – 2017), acquired at Spink & Son and other London dealers in the 1960's. An almost identical bird, though in chromatic reverse, white on black, can be seen on a bowl in the Al-Sabah Collection (O. Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, Thames and Hudson and the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum, 2004, inv. no. LNS.1.C, p. 232).
A BLACK-PAINTED OPAQUE WHITE-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL PROPERTY FROM THE STEPHEN KEYNES COLLECTION Nishapur, Iran, 10th century Of conical shape, with straight rim, on a short circular foot, the earthenware body covered in opaque white tin-based slip and painted in manganese black with a stylised bird to the centre and four pseudo-calligraphic inscriptions to the rim, 24.6cm diam. Provenance: Stephen Keynes (1927 – 2017), acquired at Spink & Son and other London dealers in the 1960's. An almost identical bird, though in chromatic reverse, white on black, can be seen on a bowl in the Al-Sabah Collection (O. Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, Thames and Hudson and the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum, 2004, inv. no. LNS.1.C, p. 232).
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