EARLY ISLAMIC POTTERY. A FATIMID LUSTREWARE BOWL

EARLY ISLAMIC POTTERY. A FATIMID LUSTREWARE BOWL, EGYPT, LATE 10TH/ EARLY 11TH C of buff coloured clay in a creamy white glaze speckled on the exterior, painted in olive-brown lustre with hares, the exterior with three circles of chevrons reserved on a ground of diagonal lines and spots, 12.5cm diamProvenance: An English private collection since the 1950sA similarly painted fragment of a bowl is illustrated Philon (H), Early Islamic Ceramics in the Benaki Museum Athens, 1980, fig 335 and col plt 1X,b.