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Lot Essay
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With a band of kufic calligraphy around the body, (undeciphered)
The introduction of fritware to Iranian pottery greatly increased the possibilities of ceramic art since stonepaste offered a better adhesive surface than natural clays (E. J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, Oxford, 1994, p.147). Monochrome wares like this were produced using a transparent glaze coloured with cobalt which was mined near Kashan although it was used in pottery centres across Seljuk Iran. Vessels such as the present lot were created out of two horizontally-joined hemispheres, the lower one turned on the wheel and the uppermost moulded to incorporate a decorative band. On the present lot, this band features running animals and a particularly elegant, though illegible, band of kufic calligraphy. A similarly-shaped jar, produced in the same technique and with a purely figural decorative band, sold in these Rooms, 23 October 2007, lot 82
With a band of kufic calligraphy around the body, (undeciphered)
The introduction of fritware to Iranian pottery greatly increased the possibilities of ceramic art since stonepaste offered a better adhesive surface than natural clays (E. J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, Oxford, 1994, p.147). Monochrome wares like this were produced using a transparent glaze coloured with cobalt which was mined near Kashan although it was used in pottery centres across Seljuk Iran. Vessels such as the present lot were created out of two horizontally-joined hemispheres, the lower one turned on the wheel and the uppermost moulded to incorporate a decorative band. On the present lot, this band features running animals and a particularly elegant, though illegible, band of kufic calligraphy. A similarly-shaped jar, produced in the same technique and with a purely figural decorative band, sold in these Rooms, 23 October 2007, lot 82