Two bottle vases and a large ceramic bowl

Description:

Persia or Central Asia, 13th c.
H. 14 - 23 cm; D. 18,5 / 19,5 cm
Light-coloured body, the bottle vases with spherical body and long, retracted neck. Moulded relief decoration, including Kufic calligraphy. The bottle vase with handle and the octagonal bowl glazed in turquoise. The light-coloured bottle vase with an underglaze blue splash.
From the collection of art dealer and collector Saeed Motamed (1925-2013), collected since the 1950s, largely documented in a 1998 inventory with drawings and Persian descriptions. Partially documented in exhibition catalogs since the 1970s, see inventory under nos. 1075, 1076, and 1080, p. 125 - Partly boken and rest.