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

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

4. BASE FRAGMENT, ACC NO. 75.18. 5. OUTSIDE OF 75.18. far-fetched suggestion, to trace it back to the flying horse which appears on Chinese porcelain of the Ming Dinasty, of the Wanli (1573—1620) and T'ien-ch'i (1621—27) periods. Such horses can be observed on "Persian-shaped Chinese porcelain flasks, which were clearly manufactured for the Persian market".

10 Turning to the other four pieces in the Hopp Museum, all of which are painted in bluish-black colours, we find, that these depict different type of decorations. The most common of these shows a rocky landscape, which appears on no. 75.18 (figs. 4—5). The small fragmentary bowl, no. 75.15 (figs. 6—7), has floral decoration inside and vine scrolls on its outside which also appears in a different form on the base fragment of no. 75.19 (figs. 8—9); finally, the last one, no. 75.17 (figs. 10—11), depicts a human figure in a landscape. As has already been mentioned, of the four type of decorations, that of no. 75.18 (fig. 4), with the rocky landscape was the most popular one. More than half of the fifty-seven sherds were decorated with a variation of this design. Six of these are shown on fig. 12 (DK. 1—6). The most obvious common pattern on these sherds, namely on the Hopp Museum piece, and on four of those shown on fig. 12 (DK. 1—2 and DK. 5—6). there is a winding road in the centre of each field and a fence, which is usually placed to the left of the picture. In case of DK.6 there are two such fences, one on each side of the road. Simple flowers and floral shrubs fill the upper part of the fields. The design on 110