Lot Essay
A similar vase but of less elegant outline is in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Arthur Lane, Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1953, pl.3).
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IRAN, 8TH/9TH CENTURY
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A MASSIVE LATE SASSANIAN OR EARLY ISLAMIC TURQUOISE GLAZED STORAGE JAR
IRAN, 8TH/9TH CENTURY
Of tall elegant form rising to the pronounced rounded shoulder with raised lip at mouth and three applied loop handles, the upper half and shoulder decorated with applied bands forming concentric arcades under the glaze, on short spreading foot, the interior glazed pale green, slight chipping around mouth, intact
30½in. (77cm.) high
IRAN, 8TH/9TH CENTURY
Of tall elegant form rising to the pronounced rounded shoulder with raised lip at mouth and three applied loop handles, the upper half and shoulder decorated with applied bands forming concentric arcades under the glaze, on short spreading foot, the interior glazed pale green, slight chipping around mouth, intact
30½in. (77cm.) high
Provenance
Jay Gluck, Japan
Literature
Shinji Fukai, Ceramics of Ancient Persia, New York, 1981, no.108
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