A KUTAHYA POTTERY VASE

WEST ANATOLIA, 1896 AD

细节

A KUTAHYA POTTERY VASE
WEST ANATOLIA, 1896 AD
The rounded body rising to a narrow neck and everted mouth on short foot, the white body painted under the glaze with a roundel in the middle of each side containing an Armenian dated inscription within a blue band of floral motifs, flanked by polychrome floral sprays, the sides with black similar floral sprays, inverted smaller similar motifs incongruously hanging from the rim, rim chipped
11in. (27.9cm.) high

展览

Armenian Ceramic Art, Armenian Museum, New York, autumn, 1982.

拍品专文

The inscription reads: 1896, Tiran Effendi Gumush Guerdan

A similar vase with slightly different inscription but the same date was sold from the same collection at Sotheby's London, 14 October 1987, lot 450. These pieces, together with a third which bears a further different inscription within the roundels of otherwise identical decoration, indicate that the bottles were prepared with all but the inscription completed, and then decorated following the instructions of the purchaser. All bear the same date. A further rare feature is the monochrome decoration around the mouth and at each side.