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Asian Art
Public domain

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
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Seljuk (ca. 1037 - 1194) - Il-Khanid (1256 - 1353) period
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.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammedan Potteries (New York: E. Weyhe, 1922), 238, no. 45, fig. 90.

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.

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