NORTH-EASTERN IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

Jorgen Baek Simonsen, in a discussion on a vase in the David Collection, suggests that the form of these vases, is born of a meeting between the Islamic world and India. (Kjeld von Folsach (ed.), Sultan, Shah and Great Mughal, Copenhagen, 1996, no. 249, p. 274). He writes that the almost floral form reflects the Indian aesthetic where nature's forms always played a dominant role. The David Collection vase is said originally to have come from Afghanistan, which would fit it easily into a Ghaznavid context, where the influence of Indian art was felt in many fields (von Folsach, op. cit., p.275).

A similar lot was offered at Christie's King Street, 6 October 2011, lot 60.