Catalogue of specimens illustrative of Persian and Arab art exhibited in 1885 (1885)
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Wallis, Henry, 1830-1916 · [London] Printed for the Burlington fine arts club · leaf 93
blue, ruby lustre and white ground, taken from a rubbish mound east of Cairo. It had analogies with late 13th century Persian tiles. Since considerable uncertainty exists with regard to the history of the arts represented in the late exhibition, and seeing that the date and locality assigned to… … FIG. 5.—FROM THE VASE NO. 47. * The similarity of the Fostat fragments to those from Rhages might suggest that theformer belonged to Persian vases, in which case Persian lustre ware would be carried backto a period anterior to 1168, the date of the destruction of Fostat. I was at first inclinedto…
Art objects · Art, Iranian · Islamic art
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