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Lot 655 Dα

An East Iranian fritware dish with peacocks and ibexes

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.736 € (incl. premium)
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An East Iranian fritware dish with peacocks and ibexes

Quarz frit with yellow, dark purple, and green decor over lead glaze. The well accentuated with a moulding and decorated with a peacock. Four peacocks alternating with four ibexes to the outer suface. Restored. H 5.5, D 21 cm.
Nishapur, 10th C.

Due to the interest in astrology and astronomy in the contemporary Islamic world, depictions of animals such as ibexes, lions, and fish often feature in ceramic decor owing to their association with the zodiac.

Provenance

The Monheim Collection, Aachen.
According to the family, a gift from Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the 1970s.

Literature

These decorative motifs are common in early Islamic ceramics from north eastern Iran and Nishapur. For more on the combination of peacocks and ibexes, cf. a dish from Nishapur in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt in: Müller-Wiener, Islamische Keramik, Frankfurt 1996, no. 11. Cf. also: Soustiel, La céramique islamique, Fribourg 1985, illus. 45.