Publication Date
AH 1085 - 1111 AD / late seventeenth century
Publication Place
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Museum of Arts and Crafts (MKG)
Subject
Porcelain, cobalt blue under glass, Kobachi ware
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع : 6.7 سم ، القطر : 32.3 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
1956. 106
Record ID
object;EPM;de;Mus21;1;ar
Library Location
Museum of Arts and Crafts (MKG)
Date
AH 1085 - 1111 AD / late seventeenth century
Notes
This blue and white bowl/bowl made during the Safavid era depicts a young man surrounded by vines and a flowering model. The young man wears a turban (kerchief) and holds a drinking bowl and a pourer in his hands. The design is influenced by a new type of Chinese porcelain consisting of cobalt blue glaze on a white surface, which arrived in the Middle East in the fourteenth century. The production of these pieces influenced by Chinese art continued until the eighteenth century, and as in this dish, the pieces can closely resemble the original Chinese pieces. But as a Persian type design, the shape of this particular bowl reflects local painting styles and is found in Iranian miniature painting from the 16th to 18th centuries. Based on its style, it can be assumed that this bowl belongs to what is known as the Kobashi group of bowls. The name refers to a small town in Dagestan in the Caucasus region where quantities of glazed pottery were found, without indicating its origin or where it was found. As a result of stratigraphic examinations of the subsoil, some of these pieces can now be determined to be from Samarkand and Nishapur (for more information see Fehervari 2000, pp. 271-291).
Sample Text
“A dish bearing a portrait of a young man” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;de;Mus21;1;ar
