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Kashan Lustreware Ewer, c. 1200 C.E.

Exhibited by Galerie Kevorkian

Material Fritware pottery, overglaze lustre-painted decoration

Dimensions 28 x 18.5 cm

Place of Creation Iran, Kashan

Status Vetted

About the Work

The shape of this ewer is exceptionally rare in the production of medieval Iranian ceramics. Inspired by metalwork, only a few examples of this form are know in ceramic vessels, the majority of which with underglaze painted or, more rarely, reticulated or as in this example lustred decoration. A similarly shaped lustreware example is in the collections of the Louvre Museum (MAO 444).

Another, smaller and in poorer condition, is part of the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum (65/1954).

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Provenance

Parisian private collection, formed in the 1970s

Literature

M. Bahrami, Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949: Pl. XX
O. Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985 : p. 100, nr. 76
E. Grube, Cobalt and Lustre : The First centuries of Islamic Pottery – The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. IX, London, 1994 : nr.210-211
O. Pancaroglu, Potter’s Trail : An Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Museum, London – New York, 2012 : pp. 397-409
S. Makariou, Les Arts de l’Islam au Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2012 : pp. 196-199
O. Watson, Ceramics of Iran – The Sarikhani Collection, London, 2020 : p. 317, nr. 160