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Asian Art
Explore image in Cock-Headed Ewer
13th century
Stonepaste with applied decoration and white slip painted in blue under clear glaze
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Gift of Wilson P. Foss, Jr., Ph.B. 1913
1953.24.4
Geography:
Iran
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period:
Seljuk period (1037–1194), Ilkhanid period (1256–1353)
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Parish Watson Collection No. 45 Fig. 90 (certainly between 1922 and 1940); Foss Collection #W460 (bears label); Wilson P. Foss Jr (1890–1957).; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1953
Bibliography:
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 161–62.
Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammedan Potteries (New York: E. Weyhe, Inc., 1922), 238, no. 45, fig. 90.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
