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Ewer

CulturePersian
Datemid-13th century
MediumEarthenware with lead glaze Ceramic
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (31.75 x 12.07 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-31/5
On View
Not on view
DescriptionEwer with molded decoration and opaque turqoise overglaze. Painted in polychrome and gold. The paste is buff composite clay.

Exhibition History

Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst, Munich, 1910, no. 10.

Exhibition of Islamic Art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 24-March 22, 1397, no. 126.

Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 8, pedestal 18 as Jug.

Islamic Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3, 1944-February 4, 1945, hors cat.

Art Treasures from Persia, Asia Institute, New York. November 24, 1949-January 7, 1950, no cat.

Gallery Label
The relief decoration anduse of gold highlighting piont to this ewer as an example of lajvardina ware, produced durihng the Ilkhanid or Mongol period (A.D. 1220-1336). An illegible kufic inscription decorates the shoulder.
Provenance

With Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, by 1925-March 22, 1935 [1];

Purchased from Kevorkian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

NOTES:

[1] Kevorkian is listed as the owner of the Ewer in Heinrich von Glück and Ernst Diez, Die Kunst des Islam (Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1925), 577, plate XXIV.

Published References

Friedrich Sarre and F. R. Martin, Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst in Munich 1910, exh. cat. (London: Alexandria Press, 1910), II, plate 105, (repro.).

Heinrich von Glück and Ernst Diez, Die Kunst des Islam, Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte 5 (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1925), plate 24, 577, (repro.).

Walter Heil and Aga-Oglu Mehmet, Exhibition of Islamic Art, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1937), 42, fig. 126, (repro.).

Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 228.

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 134, (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 172, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 245, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 157, (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg and Marjorie Munsterberg, World Ceramics from Prehistoric to Modern Times (New York: Penguin Studio, 1998), 76, fig. 69, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 399, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 28, fig. 15, (repro.).
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