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

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

NOTES I The author would like to take this opportunity to express his thanks and sincere gratitude to Mr. Anavian, for allowing him to study and photograph these sherds, and for presenting him the five most interesting pieces from this collection. - The author in 1971 attempted to drive along this road from Yezd to Tabas in a Volkswagen. After ca. 100 km, however, he was forced to turn back, due to the perilous sand dunes on the road. :! Information about these finds were given to the author by Mr. Anthony MacNicoll, former Director of the British Institute in Afghanistan and Field Director of the Kandahar excavations. 4 DK. stands for Dasth-e Kavir. 5 Arthur Lane. Later Islamic Pottery, London. 1957, p. 97. li Lane, op. cit., plate 69B, p. 95. 7 Lane, op. cit., p. 95. 8 Investigations at Tal-i Iblis, edited by J. R. Caldwell, Springfield, Illinois, 1967, p. 58, plate II on p. 57. 3 Cf. G. Fehérvári and A. D. H. Bivar, „Qobeyra 1974: Advance Report on the Third Season", in Proceedings of the Illrd Annual Symposium on Archaeological Research in Iran. Muzeh-e Iran-e Bastan, Tehran, 2nd— 7th November, 1974. Published in Tehran, 1975, p. 258, fig. 5. III T. Volker, Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company, Leiden, 1954, plates VI 8 a

—b, XVII 46 a—b; Michel and Cécile Beurdeley, Chinese Ceramics, Translated by Katherine Watson, London, 1974, no. 113, p. 213. 11 Lane, op. cit., pl. 73A, p. 97. More about this piece further below on p. 00, and n. 26. 12 Lane, op. cit., plates 69A,B, 70A, 71B, 72B, 73A, 75A,B, 76A—

C, 77B, 78A,B, 79A.B, 80B and 82A,B. 13 Acc. no. 61.397 Unpublished. 14 G. Fehérvári, ''Safavid Pottery" in Persian and Mughal Art, Catalogue to coincide with the Exhibition of Persian and Mughal Art, held at Colnaghi, 7 April to 20 May, 1976, ed. B. W. Robinson, London, 1976, cat. nos. 153— 56, 159—61, 164 and 167. 15 One of these two bowls is decorated with 121