Turquoise-Glazed Bowl - LO.659, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1200 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 2.75" (7.0cm) high x 7.25" (18.4cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style:  More »

Turquoise-Glazed Bowl - LO.659, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1200 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 2.75" (7.0cm) high x 7.25" (18.4cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Earthenware.   « Less

Polychrome Glazed Pottery Bowl - LO.660, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1200 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 5.125" (13.0cm) high x 5.375" (13.7cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art,  More »

Polychrome Glazed Pottery Bowl - LO.660, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1200 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 5.125" (13.0cm) high x 5.375" (13.7cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Bamiyan, Medium: Glazed Pottery.   « Less

Bamiyan Splashed Sgraffiato Dish - LO.661, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 12 th Century AD to 13 th Century AD, Dimensions: 3" (7.6cm) high x 7" (17.8cm) wide, Collection:  More »

Bamiyan Splashed Sgraffiato Dish - LO.661, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 12 th Century AD to 13 th Century AD, Dimensions: 3" (7.6cm) high x 7" (17.8cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Bamiyan, Medium: Buff Earthenware. Sgraffiato ware with large cavetto and small everted rim. The inside decoration incised and painted in manganese and green. A large flower radiating from the centre covers almost all the surface, whilst brown and green vertical lines descend from the rim to fill the space between.   « Less

Green-Glazed Earthenware Vase - LO.665, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 6.75" (17.1cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium:  More »

Green-Glazed Earthenware Vase - LO.665, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 6.75" (17.1cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Earthenware. Green-glazed vessel with footed base, large cavetto, slightly everted sides moulded with four zoomorphic spouts depicting an open-jawed feline protomes.   « Less

Turquoise-Glazed Pottery Jug - LO.666, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 8" (20.3cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed  More »

Turquoise-Glazed Pottery Jug - LO.666, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1300 AD, Dimensions: 8" (20.3cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Pottery.   « Less

Glazed Pottery Jug - LO.668, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 9.25" (23.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Pottery.

Glazed Pottery Jug - LO.668, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 9.25" (23.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Pottery.   « Less

Sphero-Conical Vessel - LO.671, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 900 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 8.50" (21.6cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Stoneware.

Sphero-Conical Vessel - LO.671, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 900 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 8.50" (21.6cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Stoneware.   « Less

Glazed Painted Mina'i Bowl - LO.673, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1180 AD to 1220 AD, Dimensions: 8.175" (20.8cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium:  More »

Glazed Painted Mina'i Bowl - LO.673, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1180 AD to 1220 AD, Dimensions: 8.175" (20.8cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium: Fritware. Bowl with narrow straight footring, sloping sides and slightly everted rim, decorated on the interior with five seated human figures interspersed between arabesques,around the cavetto, in turn painted with a sphinx whose wing terminates with a human face. The surface is covered with a delicate blue-tinged opaque glaze. Below the rim, on the exterior, a band of cursive script. This type of pottery decoration is considered the last phase of ceramic deveopment for the Seljuq period and it is now believed that it was exclusively produced in Kashan, Iran. Mina'i is the Persian word for 'enamelled', as the colours would look as if they were cloisonne' enamelled. The mina'i technique of over-glazed painting combined with underglaze blue was developed in an attempt by some Iranian potters to increase the number of colours in their palettes. Stable colours were stain-painted in a lead glaze opacified with tin and, after a first firing, less stable colours were applied and the object was refired at a lower temperature. However, whether for economic or aesthetic reasons, this method was short-lived. By the time of the Mongol invasion this practice lost its earlier importance and was gradually substituted by the Lajvardina version of over-glazed painting.   « Less

Sphero-Conical Stone Vessel - LO.675, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 3.75" (9.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic, Medium:  More »

Sphero-Conical Stone Vessel - LO.675, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 3.75" (9.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic, Medium: Stoneware. Spherical grey stone vessel with a narrow neck with small everted rolled rim and pointed on its lower part.The upper part is decorated with a dotted circles, which also cover the body at regular intervals and cluster where the body features a circular depression.   « Less

Sphero-Conical Stone Vessel - LO.676, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 3.75" (9.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic, Medium:  More »

Sphero-Conical Stone Vessel - LO.676, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 3.75" (9.5cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic, Medium: Stone.   « Less