PERIOD: | Mid-19th Century |
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ORIGIN: | Persia |
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DIMENSIONS: | 31.Cm Diameter, |
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DESCRIPTION: | An old Islamic Persian deep-painted and underglaze ceramic plate, it has a spectacular interior with a captivating spring with the colors of turquoise underglaze swirling four fish spinning and dancing with each other above the profound underwater blossoms known as a Persian pond overgrown. |
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Footnote: | Persian ceramics and pottery have a long and productive history. Through the centuries, Persian potters have responded to the demands and changes brought by sociopolitical turmoil by adopting and refining newly introduced forms and blending them into their own culture. This innovative attitude has survived through time and influenced many other cultures around the world. The Islamic prohibition on using human figures and animal forms not only could not stop the long tradition of producing ceramic sculptures but also generated new styles of making mixed functional and conceptual objects with clay with the most delicate and fine design by the new vision and ideology. Contemporary sculptural ceramics today inherit this long history and use its rich and diverse culture as a source of inspiration. This lecture describes the old and long history of sculptural ceramics through Iran’s art history from prehistoric to the contemporary and meanwhile introduces examples from the pre-Islamic period alongside with Islamic continuation of sculptural ceramics. Also will provide several examples of contemporary ceramic sculptors and discuss their style and source of inspiration; primitive, classic and a modern ceramic sculptor to explain the common current of the field in Iran today. Finally describes the writer’s own recent experimental sculptural ceramics as part of his doctoral research and its outcome. |
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| Condition reports; | As expected some surface scratches due to its used ages as viewed. |
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Provenance: | Probably from Oliver Hoare Collections 1970″s, Thereafter “Sold at the European Art Market. |
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