Bidspirit auction | A MAMLUK SGRAFFITO DISH WITH

A MAMLUK SGRAFFITO DISH WITH FLOWERS - Egypt, Ca. AD 1300 - 1400. A sgraffito dish of rounded form resting on a flat base. The ochre glaze is decorated with incised lines in brown, black, and yellow glaze. The central roundel is surrounded by a radiating pattern of interlacing brown strapwork. It has black palmettes, half-star patterns and roundels filling the space. The border is adorned with reciprocal triangles, while the underside is plain except for a large incised black-glazed blazon. A number of other sgraffito pottery fragments have the same blazon, one in the Islamic Museum, Cairo (La Céramique Égyptienne de l'epoque musulmane, Basel, 1922, pl.142), another in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (LNS 964 Ca; Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, the al-Sabah Collection, London, 2004, pp.413-4), one in the Keir Collection (Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, no.234, p.285), two in Berlin (David Alexander, Furusiyya, exhibition catalogue, volume 2, Riyadh, 1996, p.81), and further examples in the Islamic Museum in Cairo and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (L. A. Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, Oxford, 1999 reprint, pl.XII). A number of other sgraffito pottery fragments have the same blazon, one in the Islamic Museum, Cairo (La Céramique Égyptienne de l'epoque musulmane, Basel, 1922, pl.142), another in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (LNS 964 Ca; Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, the al-Sabah Collection, London, 2004, pp.413-4), one in the Keir Collection (Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, no.234, p.285), two in Berlin (David Alexander, Furusiyya, exhibition catalogue, volume 2, Riyadh, 1996, p.81), and further examples in the Islamic Museum in Cairo and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (L. A. Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, Oxford, 1999 reprint, pl.XII). Size: 195mm x 35mm; Weight: 495g. Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014; Ex. Christie's Art of the Islamic and Indian world, 23 Oct. 2007, lot 77. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.