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Lot 30
A large Lajvardina pottery Flask Persia, 13th Century
8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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A large Lajvardina pottery Flask
Persia, 13th Century
Persia, 13th Century
of bulbous form on a short foot, the tapering neck with raised ring above the shoulder and terminating in a bulbous section, decorated overglaze in red, white and gilt on a cobalt blue ground, the ribbed body with a band of stylised tree motifs interspersed by roundels containing rosettes all on a ground of scrolling floral vines, the neck with a repeat of the same design
34 cm. high
34 cm. high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Formerly in a private collection, Tehran; purchased through a dealer in Tehran in 1969.
Lajvardina wares derive their name from lajvard, Persian for lapis lazuli. These distinctive wares were a continuation of the earlier minai technique and are described in Abu'l Qasim's treatise. The only dated example is a tile formerly in Richard Ettinghausen's collection with the date 1315. For a discussion of Lajvardina wares see E. Grube, 1976, p. 256.
A similar Lajvardina vase from the H. Kevorkian Collection is illustrated in A.U. Pope, Masterpieces of Persian Art, New York, 1945, p. 136, pl.100.
Another flask, almost as large, was sold at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 6th October 2010, lot 161.