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Country of Origin: Mughal
India
Date of Origin
14th Century
Use: bowl
JBOC Comments: The pattern of
this bo
Auction Catalogue Description:
Sotheby's Auctions » Arts of the Islamic World
» lot 90
Sale L04220
A RARE GOLDEN HORDE SLIP-DECORATED BOWL, GOLDEN
HORDE KHANATE, SOUTHERN RUSSIA, 14TH CENTURY
London, New Bond Street 7,000—10,000 GBP
Session 1
28 Apr 04 10:30 AM
MEASUREMENTS
measurements note
19cm. diam.; 8.5cm. high
DESCRIPTION
of hemispherical form painted with trails of
raised white slip on a grey slip ground stained
with cobalt blue and turquoise under a
transparent colourless glaze which stops short of
the wedge-shaped foot exposing the pink clay
body, the interior with a design of a flying
goose with arching neck and wings spread against
a scrolling foliate ground, the exterior with
stiff lotus petal panels
CATALOGUE NOTE
This bowl is one of the finest surviving examples
of a rare group of ceramic wares associated with
Saray al-Jadid or Saray Berke, the second capital
of the Khanate of the Golden Horde on the banks
of the River Volga.
Numismatic and other archaeological evidence from
the site corroborates Ibn Arabshah's statement
that Saray Berke was only occupied for a brief
period of sixty-three years from its foundation
under Khan Uzbek (r.1312-42) to its destruction
by Timur in 1395. This provides fairly precise
dating parameters for this bowl and the group of
wares to which it belongs. A very similar example
is in the Louvre, MAO 756 (see Arabesques et
jardins de paradis, Paris, 1990, no.79). Two
other published examples of coarser design are in
the Hermitage in St Petersburg (see Masterpieces
of Islamic Art in the Hermitage Museum, Kuwait,
1990, nos. 65 and 69). Another example was sold
at Christie's, 10 October 2003, lot 269, and is
now in the David Collection in Copenhagen (see
von Folsach 2001, no. 223) and a larger
fragmentary bowl was sold at Christie's, 11 April
2000, lot 241.
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