Four ceramic bowls, Iran and Central Asia, 10th... Lot 73

Four ceramic bowls, Iran and Central Asia, 10th - early 20th century. Made of ceramic with underglaze painted decoration. The first, a small truncated cone-shaped bowl of the Sari type, 10th-11th century, with radiating decoration of rectangular cartouches and ocelots in a predominantly manganese brown on a cream background; the second, a truncated cone-shaped Samanid bowl, Nishapur or Samarkand, 10th century, with epigraphic decoration painted in black slip on a cream background of the repetition of a name alternating with a bifid palmette on the wall, with the center inscribed with a word in a medallion ; the third, a hemispherical bowl, Iran, 13th century, painted in black under turquoise glaze with swirling dots on the bottom and placed in a checkerboard pattern on the inner wall; the fourth, a small bowl probably from Central Asia, Bukhara, circa 1900, made of red ceramic with decoration painted in manganese brown under turquoise glaze of a wavy line under the lip, multi-lobed foliage on the outer wall. Diam. 18 cm, 25,4 cm, 21,2 cm ; Diam. 21 cm First three pieces in the state, broken-glued, missing and restored, some chips on the fourth.