Double-Spouted Vessel

Period Seljuq Empire (Turkish, 1037 - 1194)

Place of Originprobably Kashan, Iran

Datelate 12th-early 13th century

Dimensions5 7/8 × 8 3/4 × 4 3/8 in. (14.9 × 22.2 × 11.1 cm)

Mediumglazed earthenware with enamel

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1941.14

Not on View

DescriptionStonepaste, opaque white glaze, polychrome in-glaze and overglaze painting (Mina’i ware). A bulbous, double spouted pot with handles in the shape of tigers. Decorated in haft rang, seven-color polychrome technique. Originally fitted with a lid, now missing. On the shoulder, camel riders hunting and playing music, stylized Kufic bands above and below. Around the base, harpies alternating with arabesques.

Published References

Meyer Riefstahl, R., The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammedan Potteries, New York, 1922, no. 15, p. 101, fig. 36.

The Toledo Museum of Art: Museum News, December 1941, p. 1515, fig. 15.

Exhibition History

New York, Iranian Institute, Exhibition of Persian Art, 1940, p. 23, case 25D.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest, 1959, no. 88.