Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 5. (Budapest, 1977)

FEHÉRVÁRI, Géza: A Hoard of Blue and White Sherds from the Dasht-e Kavir

8. BASE OF A LARGE PLATE OR DISH, ACC. NO. 75.19. 9. OUTSIDE OF 75.19. blue. Occasionally the Meshed pieces may be outlined in black. A practice that appears in Kirman only in the very end of the Safavid period. During his stay in Yezd in 1970—71, the author was able to collect sherds of the greyish-blue and bluish-black type colours, some of which represent similar decorations to the pieces under discussion here. Thus Lane's theory which he put forward in 1957, seems to be well supported. As to the possible shape of the vessels involved, the clue may be provided by the number of concentric lines surrounding the central decorated field, and by the size of the foot-ring. It is considered, that those pieces, where the central field is surrounded by single or double concentric lines, and are provided with high, but thin footrings, must have been bases of small convex-sided bowls with everted rims. This type of bowl can be traced back to Chinese prototypes of the 14th and 15th centuries. They appear in Persian blue and white ware as early as the 15th century. There are two such small convex-sided blue and white bowls in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

15 Bases with double lines and larger diameter may have been part of heavy, large and deep bowls, like nos. 153 and 164, which were exhibited at Colnaghi in 1976.

1(i Bases which have more than two concentric lines, and are provided with low, 112