Lot 95
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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED CAT WEIGHT
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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED CAT WEIGHT

PROBABLY NISHAPUR, 12TH CENTURY

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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED CAT WEIGHT
PROBABLY NISHAPUR, 12TH CENTURY
Crouching on flat base, the heavy body with moulded legs and tail, the head with pricked ears and highly stylised comic features, single repaired break, fine crackelure in the glaze and slight chips along the base
7¾in. (19.7cm.) long
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Lot Essay

This cat is made of solid potttery, rather than the hollow construction one normally finds in monochrome glazed sculptures from the Iranian world. It makes intersting comparison with a bronze lion weight in a private collection, the interior of which is filled with lead. This indicates that all the similar bronze and ceramic recumbant cat sculptures are in fact designed to sit on the corners of textiles on the ground as weights.

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