Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Property from a European private collection
A Kashan black and turquoise pottery bowl with water-weed design, Persia, early 13th century
Auction Closed
October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of truncated conical form with straight edges, on short foot, painted in black with a central 'water-weed' design on radiating cobalt blue bands under a transparent turquoise alkaline glaze, the exterior also with radial blue bands and weed motifs inbetween, numbered '10' in pencil to underside of foot
10cm. height
20.6cm. diam.
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Spink & Son Ltd., London, 18 October 1994.
Stephen Garratt Collection, England.
Stephen Garratt Collection, England.
Treasures of the Courts, Spink & Son, London, 18 October-4 November 1994, cat. no.4.
The Arts of Islam, Hayward Gallery, London, the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976, p.247, no.356.
Islamic Pottery 800-1400, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1969, no.156.
The Arts of Islam, Hayward Gallery, London, the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976, p.247, no.356.
Islamic Pottery 800-1400, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1969, no.156.
The water-weed design first appears in Persian underglaze-painted wares in the early thirteenth-century. These wares, decorated using a brush, superseded the earlier and more-labour intensive slip-carved "Silhouette wares". The brush had several advantages over the knife: not only did it speed up the design process, but it also allowed for more fluid and painterly decoration, of which this bowl is a fine example.
These wares were produced for export as well as for the domestic market and were closely imitated at the Raqqa potteries of northern Syria. For a discussion of the impact of Persian underglaze-painted designs on Raqqa and Fustat in the first half of the thirteenth century, see H. Philon, 'Stems, Leaves and Water-Weeds: Underglaze-painted pottery in Syria and Egypt', J. Raby (ed.), The Art of Syria and the Jazira, 1100-1250, Oxford, 1985.
These wares were produced for export as well as for the domestic market and were closely imitated at the Raqqa potteries of northern Syria. For a discussion of the impact of Persian underglaze-painted designs on Raqqa and Fustat in the first half of the thirteenth century, see H. Philon, 'Stems, Leaves and Water-Weeds: Underglaze-painted pottery in Syria and Egypt', J. Raby (ed.), The Art of Syria and the Jazira, 1100-1250, Oxford, 1985.