Matthew Thomas
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Lot 24
A large unglazed moulded pottery Jar Persia, 12th/ 13th Century
8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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A large unglazed moulded pottery Jar
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century
Persia, 12th/ 13th Century
of bulbous form on a long flared foot with a long flaring neck, the shoulder and body moulded with a series of bands containing scrolling vines interlocking to form cartouches containing animals including an elephant, an eagle, a hare, a peacock, a lion and other quadrupeds, the shoulder with mounted bosses in the form of stylised rosettes and the remains of three handles, the neck with a band of inscription
35.5 cm. high
35.5 cm. high
Footnotes
Jars of this type with stamped and applied decoration, and wide necks were found at Ghubayra in south eastern Persia (Bivar, ADH, Excavations at Ghubayra, Iran, London, 2000, pls. 124-35); whilst a large double-spouted jar in the British Museum with similar decoration is said to have been found at Malwand in Afghanistan, a site destroyed by the Ghurids in AD 1156. Pope attributes a more elaborate jar to "South Persia?" (Pope, Arthur Upham, A Survey of Persian Art, 6 vols, Oxford, 1939, pl. 753). For another jar in the al-Sabah Collection with similar moulded bosses, Kuwait, see Watson, Oliver, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, p. 107, cat no. Ab.2.