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An early eighteenth-century Persian blue and white1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Géza Fehérvári
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It has now generally been accepted that blue and white originated in the Near and Middle East, and that it was these Near Eastern wares that gave the impetus to the development of such wares in porcelain in China. Yet our knowledge of the underglaze-painted blue and white wares of the Near East that may have influenced the Chinese potters is almost non-existent. One could perhaps consider as prototypes the black, blue, and green underglaze-painted vessels of Kāshān and Sulṭānābād of the 13th and 14th centuries, which may have found their way to China after the Mongol invasion of Persia.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 102 , Issue 2: Studies in Honour of Sir Mortimer Wheeler , April 1970 , pp. 137 - 141
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1970

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10 In an appendix a provisional list of these dated Persian blue and white wares is given. The list is mainly based upon the publications of Ernst Kühnel, Richard Ettinghausen, Arthur Lane, and others, and also on the author's own research.

11 R. Ettinghausen, “Dated faience”, Survey, II, 1671.

12 Survey, VI, pl. 783/a; Lane, op. cit., pl. 77/a.

13 Lane, op. cit., pl. 78/a; Kühnel, Jahrbuch der asiatischen Kunst, I, 1924, 27, fig. 11.

14 Lane, op. cit., pl. 83/b.

15 Survey, VI, pls. 691/a–b, 707/a–b, 733/b; Lane, pl. 84/b, Survey, 736/a, Lane, pl. 86, Survey, 735/b, Lane, pl. 87, Survey, pl. 729, Lane, pl. 90, Survey, pl. 732/a.

16 Bulletin of the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology, I/1, 1931, 7; a dated Sulṭānābād piece of 672/1274 is illustrated by Ettinghausen, Ars Islamica, II, fig. 13; also shown in Survey, pl. 781/a.

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