Sphero-Conical Unglazed Vessel - LO.694, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 5.75" (14.6cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic,  More »

Sphero-Conical Unglazed Vessel - LO.694, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1000 AD, Dimensions: 5.75" (14.6cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Early Islamic, Medium: Stoneware. Sphero-conical greyish green stoneware vessel with a narrow neck with small everted rolled rim, pointed on its lower part. The upper part carries a row of stamped and carved medallions featuring what seems to be a horse carrying a bird. Traces of yet another band of stamped floral designs appear on the widest part of the body.   « Less

Green-Glazed Earthenware Jug - LO.695, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 7 th Century AD to 12 th Century AD, Dimensions: 4.50" (11.4cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style:  More »

Green-Glazed Earthenware Jug - LO.695, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 7 th Century AD to 12 th Century AD, Dimensions: 4.50" (11.4cm) high, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Earthenware.   « Less

Turquoise Splash-Glazed Oil Lamp - LO.696, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1000 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 6.5" (16.5cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium:  More »

Turquoise Splash-Glazed Oil Lamp - LO.696, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1000 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 6.5" (16.5cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium: Glazed Earthenware. Monochrome glazed lamp covered with a dome- shaped top and a long spout rectangular in section. This is a fairly rare type. The body is almost completely covered by a dome-shaped lid attached to the lower half of the body. The only opening on it is the small filling hole. The spout is unproportionally long and deep and is always rectangular in section. The only visible decoration stands on the dome with a row of applique' bosses under the glaze. This type of glazed lamp was popular only between the 13th century and drew inspiration from earlier bronze prototypes, datable to the 9th and 10th centuries. For a comparable example see the one in the Tarek Rajab Collection in G. Fehervari, Ceramics of The Islamic World, 2000: pl. 172, p. 140.   « Less

Brown-Glazed Oil Lamp - LO.700, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2.5" (6.4cm) high x 5.75" (14.6cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk,  More »

Brown-Glazed Oil Lamp - LO.700, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2.5" (6.4cm) high x 5.75" (14.6cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium: Earthenware. Monochrome glazed lamp with a closed body, a long spout and a large leaf-shaped thumb- piece. The body is cylindrical, with a small filling hole joined to the open spout,opposite a loop handle and on top an three-lobed palmette shaped large thumb-piece. The thumb piece carries a moulded decoration of foliage and the whole surface is covered with a brown glaze. This type of lamp seems to follow metal protoytpes, that would eventually indicate an Egyptian origin. Indeed they are known as 'coptic' lamps, since they were already made in pre- Islamic times, as early as the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Yet a very similar bronze lamp with a lid over the central filling hole and with a flat, openwork and incised thumb-piece in the Bumiller Collection was attributed to Iran and dated to the 12th and 13th centuries. For a discussion on 'Coptic lamps' see: Dahncke,Monika, Fruhislamische Bronze - Ollampen und Ihre Typologie, 1992: p.58.   « Less

Glazed Oil Lamp With Painted Brown Scrolling Pattern - LO.701, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2" (5.1cm) high x 4.75" (12.1cm) wide, Collection:  More »

Glazed Oil Lamp With Painted Brown Scrolling Pattern - LO.701, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 800 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2" (5.1cm) high x 4.75" (12.1cm) wide, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Earthenware.   « Less

Lustre Shallow Bowl - LO.703, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3" (7.6cm) high x 7.25" (18.4cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk,  More »

Lustre Shallow Bowl - LO.703, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3" (7.6cm) high x 7.25" (18.4cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium: Fritware.   « Less

Kashan Lustre-Painted Bowl - LO.704, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2.75" (7.0cm) high x 7.125" (18.1cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style:  More »

Kashan Lustre-Painted Bowl - LO.704, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 2.75" (7.0cm) high x 7.125" (18.1cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Seljuk, Medium: Fritware. Deep bowl with straight flaring sides on a low foot-ring, the interior painted in lustre with four male figures in medallions radiating from the cavetto, the rim with pseudo-Kufic inscriptions, below it a narrow concentric band painted in cobalt blue, as the lobed border of the main central scene. In the centre an abstract motif outlined in cobalt blue and filled in with splashes of turquoise and manganese. Similar splashed dots at the four quarters on the rim. The exterior with horizontal panels of foliate abstract lines in red,few splashed dots in turquoise blue.   « Less

Bamiyan Turquoise-Glazed Bowl with Stamped and Incised Decoration - LO.705, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3.25" (8.3cm) high x 6.5" (16.5cm)  More »

Bamiyan Turquoise-Glazed Bowl with Stamped and Incised Decoration - LO.705, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3.25" (8.3cm) high x 6.5" (16.5cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Bamiyan, Medium: Fritware. Alkaline glazed composite fritware, the cavetto carrying a moulded star-shaped motif, the straight flaring sides with split palmettes, amidst foliages. Coloured monochrome glazed ware started being applied to composite fritware only during the Seljuq period in Iran. Because of this new biscuit material, potters were also able to use more refined decorative motifs and patterns. The colour range varied tremendously, from shades of green to blue and turquoise, yellow, brown to mauve and manganese. Several were the early centres of production in Iran, including Nishapur, Kashan, Jurjian and Kirman. From such a successful production stemmed the Afghan pottery of the 12th and 13th centuries. The three unglazed chaplets on the cavetto would suggest that this type of bowls would have been fired upturned in piles. Chaplets -or spacers- were used to separate one bowl from the one above, thus avoiding they would stick during the firing process. Most of these alkaline glazed composite fritwares could be dated to the 12th century, although they kept on being produced well after the Mongol invasion of 617 AH/ AD 1220. For comparable examples see: G. Fehervari, Ceramics of the Islamic World..., 2000: pl.186-9, p.152-3.   « Less

Turquoise-Glazed Bowl with Stamped and Incised Decoration - LO.706, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3.25" (8.3cm) high x 6.25" (15.9cm) depth,  More »

Turquoise-Glazed Bowl with Stamped and Incised Decoration - LO.706, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 1100 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 3.25" (8.3cm) high x 6.25" (15.9cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Fritware. Alkaline glazed composite fritware, the cavetto carrying a moulded endless knot motif, the straight flaring sides with trefoils placed within split palmettes, amidst foliages. Coloured monochrome glazed ware started being applied to composite fritware only during the Seljuq period in Iran. Because of this new biscuit material, potters were also able to use more refined decorative motifs and patterns. The colour range varied tremendously, from shades of green to blue and turquoise, yellow, brown to mauve and manganese. Several were the early centres of production in Iran, including Nishapur, Kashan, Jurjian and Kirman. From such a successful production stemmed the Afghan pottery of the 12th and 13th centuries. The three unglazed chaplets on the cavetto would suggest that this type of bowls would have been fired upturned in piles. Chaplets -or spacers- were used to separate one bowl from the one above, thus avoiding they would stick during the firing process. Most of these alkaline glazed composite fritwares could be dated to the 12th century, although they kept on being produced well after the Mongol invasion of 617 AH/ AD 1220. For an almost identical example see: G. Fehervari, Ceramics of the Islamic World..., 2000: pl.187, p.152.   « Less

Green-Glazed Moulded Tile - LO.707, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 900 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 8.25" (21.0cm) wide x 8.25" (21.0cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style:  More »

Green-Glazed Moulded Tile - LO.707, Origin: Central Asia, Circa: 900 AD to 1200 AD, Dimensions: 8.25" (21.0cm) wide x 8.25" (21.0cm) depth, Collection: Islamic Art, Style: Islamic, Medium: Glazed Earthenware.   « Less