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Though the potters of Kashan also made Mian’i
and lusterware, they developed specific
techniques, styles and methods of painting for
each genre. Production of Kashan pottery was
finally brought to a halt by the Mongol incursions
toward the end of the second decade of the
13th
Century.?
This beautiful vase has an elegant and modern
feel to it, and indeed it was a precursor to more
modern styles and methods of ceramic art. The
vase has an open lipped mouth, which tapers
into a long shapely neck. The neck is adorned
with a scrolling black arabesque necklace
encased in shading of sky blue. The neck
stretches down to a broad smooth shoulder. The
black collar at the shoulder has several further
black columns draped from it down to the foot
of
the piece and each contains an undecipherable
benediction. Made of white composite fritware,
this exquisitely shaped vase is underglaze
painted in blue and black under a transparent
glaze, which stops short of the a low splayed
foot ring.
- (AMD.03)
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