Author
unknown
Author Original
مجهول
Publication Date
17th century
Publication Place
-
Khninko Museum
Subject
Black painted porcelain paste under transparent turquoise glaze — Anonymous
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع : 5.8 سم القطر : 34.3 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
105 БВ
Record ID
object;EPM;uc;Mus21;31;ar
Library Location
Khninko Museum
Date
17th century
Notes
The few types of 17th-century Iranian porcelain vessels, freely painted and covered with fissures, were traditionally known as Kubachi porcelain. This traditional name comes from the village of Dagestan, where a large number of centers for making Iranian Safavid pottery were concentrated in the nineteenth century. However, the production centers for the various Kobashi vessels still need to be identified. The pottery was painted black under transparent turquoise glaze, which belongs to an early and distinct type and perhaps the first type of the Kobashi group. The color turquoise has a beloved charitable connotation in Persian culture due to the correspondence between the Persian words (firoza), which means the turquoise blue color of the precious stone, and turquoise, which means victory. And prosperity. The idea of decorating with black and turquoise has its origins in Iranian pottery from the late 12th century. The Timurid bowls painted black on turquoise in the fifteenth century were a development of this tradition, and in the seventeenth century the black-painted style became noticeably lighter and freer. The great movement of the artist’s hand revealed the expertise of the calligrapher.
Sample Text
"Plate" within Discover the collections of Islamic art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;31;ar
