. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. y-white glaze and decorated, as to the body,with six raised and gilded scrolled and floral pendants enclosingheart-shaped medallions of green enamel and separated by raisedand gilded pendants supported by seated human figures. Aboveis a band of Persian inscription in raised reserve on a gold groundand the shoulder is decorated with six spade-shaped medallions,with alternate red, blue and black grounds scrolled in contras
. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. y-white glaze and decorated, as to the body,with six raised and gilded scrolled and floral pendants enclosingheart-shaped medallions of green enamel and separated by raisedand gilded pendants supported by seated human figures. Aboveis a band of Persian inscription in raised reserve on a gold groundand the shoulder is decorated with six spade-shaped medallions,with alternate red, blue and black grounds scrolled in contrastingcolors and enclosing raised and gilded human figures. Theneck is decorated with three raised and gilded pendants enclosingheart-shaped medallions of green enamel and separated by raised,gilded and scrolled pendants. The ground is decorated withwaved lines of blue and white, and the bottle is banded at inter-vals in blue. Note: Though of undoubted Rhages facture, this bottle represents ahitherto unknown sehool of decoration, and its counterpart is not to befound in any museum or private collection, so far as is known to its presentowner. Second and Last Afternoon f~. No. 294RAKKA LUSTRE FAIENCE BOWL (Ninth Century) Height, I1 , inches: diameter, si;, inches Coupe-shaped, with incurved rim. Invested with an ivory-coloredglaze and decorated, in brown lustre with passages of blue, asto the center with an inscription in Arabic characters, Pros-perity, surrounded by spiral whorls, and as to the inner rimwith a cusped border, the cusps filled with leaf forms, and as tothe exterior with a border of spiral whorls in line. Second and Last Afternoon
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