Ewerlate 15th - early 16th century

Not on view

Ceramic jug with ovoid body and loop handle, covered in robin's-egg turquoise glaze with dense dark brown painted floral and leaf decoration

Two ceramic jugs with single handles and narrow necks, decorated with painted foliate and arabesque motifs in turquoise and dark brown. Left jug has a cream ground; right jug has a solid turquoise ground. Both feature vertical panel divisions on the body.

Two ceramic jugs with single handles and narrow necks, decorated with dense painted floral and foliate scrollwork in turquoise and dark brown; the left jug has a cream ground, the right a solid turquoise ground, both divided into vertical panels.

Two ceramic ewers with single handles, decorated with dense painted floral and foliate scrollwork in turquoise and dark brown; the left vessel has a cream ground, the right a predominantly turquoise ground with darker overall coverage.

Ceramic ewer with bulbous body and single handle, covered in turquoise glaze with dense black painted floral and leaf arabesques divided into vertical panels; chips and losses visible at the rim.

Title: Ewer
Place Made: Iran or Central Asia
Date Made: late 15th - early 16th century
Medium: Earthenware with white slip, underglaze-painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 16 11/16 in. (42.38625 cm); Height: 19 7/8 x 10 in. (50.4825 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2002.1.278
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes: This glazed ceramic ewer and a related example (see M.2002.1.277) reflect some of the many changes that have taken place in the field of Islamic art history and perhaps also help to broaden our understanding of modern art. Both bear labels indicating that they were lent to the first great exhibition of Islamic art, held in Munich in 1910. It is now more than one hundred years later, but they have actually grown even older during that time. Ascribed to eighteenth-century Turkestan in the 1910 catalogue, these ewers can now be assigned to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Among the many distinguished visitors to the Munich exhibition was the artist Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and it is easy to imagine that he may have preserved a visual memory of objects such as these ceramic ewers, whose colorful floral ornament is echoed in his works.
Selected Bibliography: Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.
Dercon, Chris, Leon Krempel and Avinoam Shalem, eds. The Future of Tradition, The Tradition of Future: 100 Years After the Exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art in Munich. Munich: Prestel, 2010.

Ewerlate 15th - early 16th century

Not on view

Title: Ewer
Place Made: Iran or Central Asia
Date Made: late 15th - early 16th century
Medium: Earthenware with white slip, underglaze-painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 16 11/16 in. (42.38625 cm); Height: 19 7/8 x 10 in. (50.4825 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2002.1.278
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes: This glazed ceramic ewer and a related example (see M.2002.1.277) reflect some of the many changes that have taken place in the field of Islamic art history and perhaps also help to broaden our understanding of modern art. Both bear labels indicating that they were lent to the first great exhibition of Islamic art, held in Munich in 1910. It is now more than one hundred years later, but they have actually grown even older during that time. Ascribed to eighteenth-century Turkestan in the 1910 catalogue, these ewers can now be assigned to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Among the many distinguished visitors to the Munich exhibition was the artist Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and it is easy to imagine that he may have preserved a visual memory of objects such as these ceramic ewers, whose colorful floral ornament is echoed in his works.
Selected Bibliography: Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.
Dercon, Chris, Leon Krempel and Avinoam Shalem, eds. The Future of Tradition, The Tradition of Future: 100 Years After the Exhibition Masterpieces of Muhammadan Art in Munich. Munich: Prestel, 2010.

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