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

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

6. FRAGMENTARY BOWL, ACC NO. 75.15. 7. OUTSIDE OF THE FRAGMENTARY BOWL 75.15. DK.3 and 4 is a variation of this type: the winding road is absent from these two, instead we find a pagoda-like building along the right of the picture, simply drawn with only few lines and dots. The much stylised landscape of DK.13 (fig. 14) may also fall into this category, although neither the winding road, nor the fence appears in the decoration. There is large plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which depicts a figure in a landscape, sitting on a fence, another fence in front of him, and others again represented on the rim. The plate in question is painted, just like our sherds, in bluish-black, and accordingly, was considered by Lane to be the product of Yezd.

Ji Stylised and more elaborate Chinese landscapes, often with Chinese figures, were very much in vogue and in demand on Persian blue and white wares in the 17th and 18th centuries. Numerous such pieces are known, but the majority of these were attributed by Lane to Kirman or Meshed.

12 Recently more of these blue and white wares came to light. There is a similar large plate with Chinese landscape and a fantastic animal in the Hopp Museum.

13 Further examples have recently been published from the Rothschild collection, representing wares of the three important Persian blue and white centres, i.e. Kirman, Meshed and Yezd.

14 The landscapes of the Kirman and Meshed wares are always more elaborate, than those of Yezd, and of course they are always, as a rule, painted in proper 111