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拍品专文
This dish is impressive for its size and completeness. Its aniconic decorative scheme belongs to the third phase of Kashan lustreware design, termed 'the Kashan style' by Oliver Watson, which combined places where the design was drawn on directly with lustre paint and others where the design had been inscribed into a coat of lustre. Structured around a central roundel with radiating poetic inscriptions alternating with palmettes heightened with cobalt blue, this dish can be compared with an example in the Sarikhani collection. That bowl is also of a similar size and has a profile which is similar to the present lot (acc.no. I.CE.2243; Oliver Watson, Ceramics of Iran, London, 2020, p.231, no.117).
Though the example in the Sarikhani collection also has two rows of calligraphy around the rim, it differs from ours in that they are both executed in a hurried naskh script, while the inner register on this example is realised in a confident kufic-style script, filled in with cobalt-blue. Originally a script developed for manuscripts, kufic had been used in an epigraphic context since the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem by 'Abd al-Malik. Though it had largely fallen out of use as a bookhand by the 13th century, it survived in certain contexts. It appears on the rim of a remarkable dish sold as part of a Princely Collection, Sotheby's London, 5 October 2010, lot 76, which was dated by the inscription to Jumada I AH 590/April-May 1194 AD.
Ayoub Rabenou began excavating as a young man in the 1920s. His collaborations with the Iranian Archaeologic Department and the directors of the Iran (Bastan) National Museum are well documented in the numerous exhibitions and catologues in which both participated, many of which were sponsored by the government. He worked very closely with Mehdi Bahrami (Director of Islamic Art, Iran Bastan (National) Museum), M.T. Mostafavi (Director General Antiquities, Iran), Andre Godard (Director of the Iranian Archaeological Service), and the archaeologist Roman Ghirshman. In 1935 Erich Schmidt in the Penn University Museum Bulletin Rayy Research report describes Ayoub’s advice guiding him where to excavate in the garden of Abu'l-Fath Zadeh with “gratifying results”. Rabenou’s finds were exhibited as early as 1931 at the International Exhibition of Persian Art at the Royal Academy in London. The same year he sold over 100 pieces including many ceramics from sites such as Saveh, Sultanabad and Rayy in Sotheby’s June 1931 sale of Important Works of Persian Art. In 1939 Rabenou was instrumental in forming the Persian Art collection of Doris Duke, which included a large number of lustre star tiles as well as innumerable other Islamic works, all now located in Shangri La, Hawaii. In the 1950s and 60s he continued to promote Iranian Art, placing numerous works of Art including ceramics from Gurgan and Nishapur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Though the example in the Sarikhani collection also has two rows of calligraphy around the rim, it differs from ours in that they are both executed in a hurried naskh script, while the inner register on this example is realised in a confident kufic-style script, filled in with cobalt-blue. Originally a script developed for manuscripts, kufic had been used in an epigraphic context since the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem by 'Abd al-Malik. Though it had largely fallen out of use as a bookhand by the 13th century, it survived in certain contexts. It appears on the rim of a remarkable dish sold as part of a Princely Collection, Sotheby's London, 5 October 2010, lot 76, which was dated by the inscription to Jumada I AH 590/April-May 1194 AD.
Ayoub Rabenou began excavating as a young man in the 1920s. His collaborations with the Iranian Archaeologic Department and the directors of the Iran (Bastan) National Museum are well documented in the numerous exhibitions and catologues in which both participated, many of which were sponsored by the government. He worked very closely with Mehdi Bahrami (Director of Islamic Art, Iran Bastan (National) Museum), M.T. Mostafavi (Director General Antiquities, Iran), Andre Godard (Director of the Iranian Archaeological Service), and the archaeologist Roman Ghirshman. In 1935 Erich Schmidt in the Penn University Museum Bulletin Rayy Research report describes Ayoub’s advice guiding him where to excavate in the garden of Abu'l-Fath Zadeh with “gratifying results”. Rabenou’s finds were exhibited as early as 1931 at the International Exhibition of Persian Art at the Royal Academy in London. The same year he sold over 100 pieces including many ceramics from sites such as Saveh, Sultanabad and Rayy in Sotheby’s June 1931 sale of Important Works of Persian Art. In 1939 Rabenou was instrumental in forming the Persian Art collection of Doris Duke, which included a large number of lustre star tiles as well as innumerable other Islamic works, all now located in Shangri La, Hawaii. In the 1950s and 60s he continued to promote Iranian Art, placing numerous works of Art including ceramics from Gurgan and Nishapur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.