A KASHAN LUSTRE BOWL DEPICTING A HORSE AND RIDER, PERSIA, 12TH/ 13TH CENTURY

of deep rounded form on a splayed foot, decorated in a yellow-brown lustre with a large richly caparisoned horse, the rider seated within a canopy, surrounded by abstract vegetal motifs, the rim with a band of pseudo inscription, the exterior with a series of radiating panels filled with an interlace of tendrils, old collection sticker to base (no. '863').

15.8 cm. diam.

Provenance: Private UK Collection

For a lustre bowl depicting a horse with similarly ornate trappings and enclosed rider see Oliver Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London 1985, p. 78, Plate 48. Another Kashan lustre bowl depicting a horse and rider is in the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, and has very similar decoration to the exterior (AKM693).