A Timurid silhouette ware pottery jug
Persia or Central Asia, 15th Century
of globular form on a short foot with slightly waisted cylindrical neck and strap handle, decorated in black with sgraffiato on a turquoise ground with circle and foliate motifs interspersed by scrolling tendrils
17.4 cm. high
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private Belgian collection acquired at Christie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 15 October 2002, lot 112, and thence by descent.
Christie's, Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Works from the Simon Digby Collection, 7 April 2011, lot 71.

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