Lot 8053

Description

Hemispherical bowl with high ring stand, the base of which protrudes clearly outwards. The hemispherical bowl with an overglaze, the basic shade of which is beige. The inner and exterior surfaces with incised decoration, highlighted in dark brown. Dabs of glaze in the same shade of dark brown have been applied to the rounded rim. The turning grooves from the potter's wheel are visible on the lower half. A circle on the inside of the base shows a cross, interspersed with flowers, above which, lozenges are set between two horizontal lines, just below the rim. Flowers in the triangular spaces between the lozenges. On the outside, just above the middle, comma-shaped indentations are depressed all around, below alternating angles and spirals. Two horizontal lines running directly below the rim. Apart from minor spalling of the glaze, a distinguished piece of Middle Byzantine sgraffito ware in beautiful condition. Height 8 cm. Diameter 13 cm

Provenance: Westphalian private collection, acquired in the Rhenish art trade during the 1990s.

Condition: I - II Questions about the lot?