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Large Jar

CulturePersian
Date13th century
MediumGlazed pottery with low relief
DimensionsOverall: 31 5/16 × 19 11/16 inches (79.53 × 50.01 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-1
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History
No exhibition history known at this time.
Provenance

With Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969), New York and Itran, Iran, by 1932;

Purchased from Arthur Upham Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932. [1]

[1] Registration record indicates the bowl was acquired from Pope in January 1932.
Published References

M. Gaston Wiet, L’Exposition Persane de 1931. (Cario: Musée Arabe du Caire, 1933), 42, plate C, (repro.).

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art vol. 2, Volume 2 Text, Architecture, The Ceramic Arts, Calligraphy and Epigraphy (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), 1622–1623.

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 5, Plates 511–980 Architectural Ornament, Pottery and Faience, The Art of the Book. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), Plate 755, (repro.).

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).

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