- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Vase, luster painted with two superimposed stylized birds alternating twice with a long-robed figure with inclined head, the designs separated by five-unit arabesque tree. Broken and put together.
- Label
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The technique of luster-painted ceramic originated in Iraq in the ninth century from where it spread to the rest of the Islamic world and through Muslim Spain and Europe. Early examples from Iraq, such as this remarkable jar, are often decorated with bold, stylized figural imagery. The identity of this mysterious hooded figure and its relationship to the two birds on the other side, however, remains unclear.
- Published References
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- Alan Caiger-Smith. Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World. pl. 3.
- Sekai bijutsu zenshu [A Complete Collection of World Art]. 40 vols., Tokyo, 1960-1966. vol. 22: pl. 17.
- Sandra Toenies Keating. Defending the "People of Truth" in the Early Islamic Period: The Christian Apologies of Abu Raitah. History of Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 4 Leiden and Boston. cover.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 261.
- The Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vols., New York, 1959-1968. vol. 1, pl. 9.
- Robert J. Charleston. Islamic Pottery. Masterpieces of Western and Near Eastern Ceramics, vol. 4 Tokyo and New York. vol. 4, pl. 10.
- Alan Caiger-Smith. Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition, and Innovation in Islam and the Western World. London and Boston. pl. 3.
- Richard Ettinghausen. Medieval Near Eastern Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and Baltimore. pp. 10-11.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 4, pp. 20-21.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Art of the Arab World. Exh. cat. Washington, 1975. cat. 12, pp. 34-35.
- W. Aubrey Cartwright. Guide to Art Museums in the United States: East Coast, Washington to Miami., 1st ed. New York. p. 45.l.
- Geza Feherari. Two Early 'Abbasid Lustre Bowls and the Influence of Central Asia. vol. 9, no. 2 London, Summer 1963. p. 84, fig. 12.
- Richard Ettinghausen, O. Graber. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. The Pelican History of Art Hammondsworth, United Kingdom and New York. p. 115, fig. 96.
- La Livre du Millenaire d'Avicenne. vol. 4 Tehran. pp. 132-138, fig. 17.
- Islamic Art and Archaeology: Collected Papers. Berlin. pp. 892-913.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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