Italian 19th Century Green Marble Pedestal Bowl.

19th Century English Mason’s ironstone imari style deep blue bowl with gilt flower decoration. Superb ironstone bowl hand painted with bold e...

Antique Islamic Kashan Persian 13th century turquoise glazed pottery bowl. This bowl with vertical foot has interior paint in brilliant tur...

Ancient rare Kashan lustre bowl 12th century Islamic pottery art. This beautifully decorated and well cared for lustre bowl is one of the few examples still in existence. It was made in Kashan in the 12th-early 13th century, Seljuk- Atabeg period. Kashan was an important center for the production of high quality pottery and tiles. Lustre ware was among the most innovative development of Kashan potters, who mixed silver sulfides and copper oxides to create a shiny copper toned metallic sheen on the surface of glazed earthenware bowls, plates and vessels. It was an expensive and unpredictable lustre technique. Kashan lustreware pottery can be found in the collections of the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum. Literature: O. Pancaroglu. Perpetual Glory. Medieval Islamic Ceramics...

19th Century Victorian Marble Fireplace Mantle Keystone Delicately carved architectural cartouche made from white Carrara Marble. This antique keystone...