PICHET EN CÉRAMIQUE À DÉCOR ÉPIGRAPHIQUE Lot n° 15

EASTERN IRAN, NISHAPOUR, SAMANID ART, 11th CENTURY Clay ceramic decorated with white slip on brown slip, the bulbous body is decorated with a calligraphic frieze in ornamental kufic script, encircled by a geometric frieze. The cylindrical neck is slightly flared and decorated with fleurons and stems. The inner part of the neck also features a geometric frieze. Height: 15 cm Most of the calligraphically-decorated ceramics in this group, from Nishapur and Samarkand, are decorated in the opposite way: black on a white background. Examples such as the pitcher presented here are rarer. Similar calligraphic ceramics are published in Terres secrètes de Samarcande, Céramiques du VIIIe au XIIIe siècle, Paris, 1992, no. 163, p. 96.