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Jug with Birds and Inscription Bands
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The lower part of this jug is decorated with repeating arch-like forms enclosing long-necked birds facing left. An illegible inscription in Persian encircles the shoulder. Above this are foliate designs and roundels containing leftward-facing birds similar to the others. Used either as filler or as part of figural compositions, birds are a common motif in Iranian lusterware. The neck of the jug is decorated with two bands of illegible Kufic script separated by a band of swirling tendrils. White glaze covers the body of the vessel but ends in thick droplets short of the base. On one side of the jug the luster retains a dark red cast; elsewhere it is yellowish and, in the areas of the handle and mouth, shows considerable abrasion.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Mansour Gallery London 1972] sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Belmont MA (1972-2002) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Title: Jug with Birds and Inscription Bands
Description:
The lower part of this jug is decorated with repeating arch-like forms enclosing long-necked birds facing left.
An illegible inscription in Persian encircles the shoulder.
Above this are foliate designs and roundels containing leftward-facing birds similar to the others.
Used either as filler or as part of figural compositions, birds are a common motif in Iranian lusterware.
The neck of the jug is decorated with two bands of illegible Kufic script separated by a band of swirling tendrils.
White glaze covers the body of the vessel but ends in thick droplets short of the base.
On one side of the jug the luster retains a dark red cast; elsewhere it is yellowish and, in the areas of the handle and mouth, shows considerable abrasion.
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