CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY

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A KASHAN POTTERY JUG
CENTRAL IRAN, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
The rounded body decorated with a band of kufic on a scrolling arabesque ground, repeated stylised palmette motifs and a band of geometric motifs with roundels above and below, the neck with a similar kufic inscription with a smaller inscription below, the handle decorated with a geometric interlacing scroll, intact
7 5/8in. (19.4cm.) high

Provenance

Private Japanese collection late 1960s, by repute, from whom purchased by Japanese trade before 1978

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Lot Essay

The shape of our jug is closely related to a lustre Kashan jug in the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, (Watson, 1985, pl.80, p.102), and two other larger examples: a turquoise glazed Kashan jug published in Bahrami's, Gurgan Faiences (1949, pl.XVIII) and a lustre decorated jug in the Agha Khan Museum (inv. no. AKM763). For a note on lustreware, see lot 13 in the present sale. The example excavated at Gurgan, noted by Bahrami, while on a larger scale, has a very similar powerful treatment of the large kufic band around the mouth, the background worked with scrolling vine, reserved against a dark, in this case lustre, ground.

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