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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTIONLots 27-43 come from a Private American collection. They were all excavated with legal licenses in Iran in the 1930s and 40s and were brought to America at a time when Europe was becoming more troubled, and America was considered the marketplace with the greatest potential. The supply of serious works of art, coupled with active promotion by scholars such as Arthur Upham Pope, meant that interest in collecting Persian art rapidly grew, with museums building up representative collections as well as private individuals forming collections of the highest quality.

A SULTANABAD POTTERY BOWL

EASTERN IRAN, 14TH CENTURY

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A SULTANABAD POTTERY BOWL
EASTERN IRAN, 14TH CENTURY
Of rounded form on short foot, painted under the clear glaze in blue and black, the interior decorated with a central rosette surrounded by a band of pseudo-calligraphy and an outer band of alternating floral motifs, the exterior with alternating blue and black vertical lines, inventory numbers in black ink on the base, rim chips, otherwise intact
8 ½in. (21.7cm.) diam.

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American collection by 1971

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This bowl was produced after the Mongol invasion although in spite of this there is a certain amount of continuity with early thirteenth century underglaze painted Kashan ware. New departures can be seen, however, in the incorporation of Chinese motifs and the overall shape of this bowl, which resembles Chinese celadon lotus bowls (Oliver Watson, Ceramics of Iran, London, 2020, p.329, cat.no.169). The term ‘Sultanabad’ is a reference to the place where pottery of this type was first discovered by Western archaeologists in the early twentieth century. In all likelihood, these bowls were still made in Kashan, which by the second half of the thirteenth century had recovered from the impact of the Mongol invasion and was once again thriving under the Pax Mongolica.

A Sultanabad bowl with very similar pattern on the exterior is in the al-Sabah collection (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, p.390, cat. Q.19). Another, with similar internal decoration in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acc.no. 55.26.2). A Sultanabad bowl with a six-pointed stellar motif in the middle was sold in these Rooms, 23 October 2007, lot 71.

EASTERN IRAN, 14TH CENTURY

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