An important lustre pottery Bowl Persia, dated Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD
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Persia, dated Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD
Persia, dated Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD
27.8 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Exhibited:
Exhibition of Persian Art, New York, 1940.
The inscription of the date reads: "Jumadi al-akhar, six hundred and three (January-February, 1207)".
This magnificent bowl which was included at the seminal exhibited of Persian art in New York in 1940, is important for the fact that it is dated. It is decorated in Watson's "Kashan style" of the first quarter of the 13th Century, and the date of Jumada II AH 603/January 1207 AD, supports Watsons proposed chronology (Oliver Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985, pp. 88-109).
For a bowl with a similar serpent frieze around the sides, dated AH 607/ AD 1210, see Mehdi Bahrami, Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl. LXIII.