A narrow-necked Iranian fritware flask - image-1

Lot 5022 Dα

A narrow-necked Iranian fritware flask

Auction 1093 - overview Brussels
18.06.2017, 10:30 - Oriental Works of Art from Belgian Collections
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.976 € (incl. premium)

A narrow-necked Iranian fritware flask

Cobalt blue glaze with fine craquelure. A modelled gourd-form bottle with a flared cup-mouth on a high footring. Relief inscription with blessings to the shoulder: "baraka [...] sa'ada wa-salama [...]" = "blessing [...] luck and salvation [...]". Restored over breakages, with additions. H 31 cm.
12th C.

Literature

Cf. Morgan, in: Grube et alii, Cobalt and Lustre: the First Centuries of Islamic Pottery, London 1994, p. 171, no. 161-162.