A KASHAN PIERCED WHITE-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL

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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 KASHAN PIERCED WHITE-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL

CENTRAL IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

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A KASHAN PIERCED WHITE-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, 12TH CENTURY
Of conical form on short foot, the centre of the interior plain, a band of moulded animals against scrolling vine at the rim with double plain bands above and below, pierced and covered in a white glaze, repaired breaks
9 ¾in. (24.8cm.) diam; 4 ½in. (11.4cm.) high

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American collection by 1971

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The introduction of fritware to Iran from Syria and Egypt in the twelfth century has been described as a ‘revolution in ceramic technology’ (Oliver Watson, Ceramics of Iran, London, 2020, p.147). Rather than earthenware, the bodies of ceramic vessels were now made of an artificial mix of quartz, clay, and finely-ground glass powder, which was perfectly white and could be made into walls only a few millimetres thick. This allowed the products of Kashan – the central Iranian town which seems to have had a monopoly on the technology - to rival those of Chinese workshops, which had a translucency which had long been the envy of the world (Oliver Watson, op.cit., p.149). It made possible the creation of vessels like this: with walls so thin that they could be carved with small perforations which would be filled with glaze and create an effect like openwork, while still holding liquids. The decorated band around the rim of our bowl resembles that on another in the Louvre (acc.no. MAO 530), and a beaker in the Sarikhani collection (Oliver Watson, op.cit., p.171, cat.86).

CENTRAL IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

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