A Kashan blue, black and white conical pottery bowl, Persia, 13th century

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Ex-collection Bonar Hugh Charles Sykes, M.A. (1922-99)
For further details on Sykes, see lot 176. 

Two exquisite bowls with similar decoration are now in the Keir Collection and inspired Ernst Grube to allude to the possibility of their higher symbolism, comparing the cobalt blue bands to the rays of the sun (Grube 1976, pp.177-8, nos.125-6).