Cup with two birds
Eastern Iran, Nichapur, 10th century
Truncated cone-shaped bowl on flattened base. Clay ceramic decorated with brown slip on a beige background, featuring two birds facing each other, with the greeting "Baraka" inscribed on their bodies. Sawtooth border on rim.
Old label bearing no. 12.
(Restorations, several fractures and repaints).
D: 21.5 cm - H: 7 cm
Provenance:
Former collection of Dr. J.-C. Lacoux, Paris; Sale
C. Boisgirard et A. de Heeckeren, Art d'Orient.
Collection du Dr J.C. Lacoux et à divers, Hôtel
Drouot, May 21 1980, lot 12; Collection B., Paris
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