IRAN, 7TH-8TH CENTURY

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A POST SASSANIAN TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY STORAGE JAR
Iran, 7th-8th century
Of rounded form with raised mouth and everted lip on short foot, the shoulder with three panels each with concentric arches of simple motifs around a central spiral terminating in a bunch of grapes, an incised zigzag band below, three applied loop handles around the mouth, all covered with a plain translucent turquoise glaze, slight chips to mouth and decoration, very slight iridescence, intact
16in. (40.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A larger turquoise glazed storage jar with very similar decoration, dated to the 7th/8th century, is published by Wilkinson (Charles K.: Iranian Ceramics, New York, 1963, no.17). Another comparable example, excavated at Susa, is now in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Lane, A.: Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1947, pl.2A).

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