Lot 20
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A KASHAN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLAZED COCKEREL-HEAD POTTERY EWER
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A KASHAN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLAZED COCKEREL-HEAD POTTERY EWER

CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200

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A KASHAN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLAZED COCKEREL-HEAD POTTERY EWER
CENTRAL IRAN, CIRCA 1200
With drop-shaped body rising to a cockerel-head finial with pronounced comb, simple handle, on spreading foot, the body moulded with interlaced arabesques terminating in palmette motifs forming an overall design, otherwise left undecorated, repaired, areas of plaster infill
17¼in. (44.1cm.) high
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Lot Essay

A very similar intact ewer, formerly in the Kevorkian Collection, is now in the Khalili Collection (Ernst J. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London, 1994, no.149, pp.148-9). Both are very probably from the same mould; the greater height of the present example being accounted for by its higher foot. Exactly the same form and decoration is also found in lustre examples (Jay Gluck, The World Of Persian Pottery, Tokyo, 1980, no.249).

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