of inverted pear-shape on a flared foot with long slightly waisted cylindrical neck and strap handle, decorated in cobalt-blue and black under a clear glaze with a band of circle motifs surrounded by a plaited cable design, above and below bands of inscription on a black ground, the neck with two further bands of inscription
19.3 cm. high

Footnotes

Inscriptions: around the shoulder, a Persian quatrain for the same quatrain on a similar ware see, Oya Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory, Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, Chicago, 2007, p. 104, no. 61, the inscriptions around the body, and for the same on a lustre bowl, p. 118-19, no. 76, around the inner base); around the belly: al-'izz al-da'im wa al-iqbal al-za'id wa al-nasr al-gha[lib] al-jadd al-[s]a'id wa ...., "Perpetual Glory and increasing Prosperity and triumphant Victory and rising Good-fortune ...."; Around the neck, in kufic, a repeat of al-'izz al-da'[im], "Perpetual Glory".

This jug exemplifies the type of wares that were produced in Persia in the first quarter of the 13th Century. The 12th Century was a period of technical advance in Persia; materials allowing the potter to produce a thin white walled vessel were developed, and at the end of the century pigments were developed that could be painted under the glaze without the use of slip. The resulting wares, according to Lane "are among the most attractive ever made in Persia" (Arthur Lane, Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1947, p. 45).

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A Kashan underglaze-painted pottery Jug Persia, 13th Century

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