TIMURID IRAN, 15TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY EWER
Timurid Iran, 15th century
The globular body on short foot rising to tubular mouth and with simple loop handle, the body painted with a wide band of blue floral meander in a chinoiserie style against a white ground above a band of diaper pattern, the mouth with simple cross-hatched design, handle similar, intact, glaze degraded, slight rim chips
6½in. (16.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The shape of this jug is found most often in metal in the Timurid period. Some thirty examples are known in bronze or brass, almost always inlaid with gold or silver, and sometimes with a handle in the form of a dragon. All date from the second half of the 15th century. This form of jug also appears in jade. Lentz, T.W. and Lowry, G.D.: Timur and the Princely Vision, Los Angeles, 1989, nos. 109-110, p.206 and no.126, p.225. The form probably derives from a Chinese porcelain prototype (Lentz and Lowry op.cit, no.125, p.224) of the Ming period, but here the jug has gained a foot.

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