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Two earthenware bowls with Arabic inscription (800-1000) from Eastern Iran or Uzbekistan & bowl with horse & rider (c1000) from Eastern Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Earthenware ewer with bird design (9thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting (9th-10thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with birds (800-1000) from Eastern Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. |
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Earthenware dish with luster painting of bird (9th-10thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Glazed earthenware bowl with bird (9th-10th C) from Neyshabur, Iran or Samarqand at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. | Glazed earthenware bowl with birds (10thC) from Iran or Afghanistan at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Earthenware bowl with kufic script (10thC or 11thC) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting (10thC) from Khorasan, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting of knot plus Arabic calligraphy (10thC) from Northeast Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting (10thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting (10thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting with Arabic calligraphy (10thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting with Arabic word for piety around four points of compass (10th-11thC) from Khorasan, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting of peacock (10thC) from Iran or Central Asia at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl with underglaze slip-painting bird (10th-11thC) from Northern Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Glazed Persian earthenware bowl with bird (10th-11th C) from Iran at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. | Earthenware bowl (10thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Footed earthenware bowl (10th-12thC) Iran at Huntington Museum of Art. Huntington, WV. | Earthenware Sari ware bowl with birds (c900-1200) from Northern Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. |
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Earthenware disk with horse & cheetah (900-1000) from Eastern Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Earthenware bowl with horse & rider (c1000) from Eastern Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Earthenware dish painted with two birds (11thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Earthenware bowl with bird design (11thC or 12thC) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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Earthenware bowls with underglaze slip-painting with Arabic word for blessing (early 11thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware bowl depicting bird & flowers (11thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Earthenware fritware ewer in shape of melon (1100-1300) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Earthenware fritware vase with four lobes (1100-1300) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. |
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Enameled earthenware bowl with elephant & rider (late 12th- early 13thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Ceramic dish painted with eagle (12th-13thC) from Iran or Syria at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Earthenware bowl with mythic winged sphinx with lion body & human face (12thC) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. | Persian ceramic bowl with horseman & sphinxes (1150-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. |
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Persian ceramic bird-headed ewer (1100-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Fritware cockerel-headed ewer with underglaze slip-painting (late 12th- early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware decanter (late 12th- early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware decanter (late 12th- early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Persian fritware rooter-headed ewer (last quarter 12thC) from Kashan, Iran at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. | Fritware bull with underglaze slip-painting (late 12th- early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware molded bowl with overglaze painting (12thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware Haft-Sin dish (late 12th- early 13thC) from Rayy, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Earthenware bowl depicting lion (12th-13thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Persian ceramic bowl with horseman (1160-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Earthenware bowl with musicians (c1200) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. | Persian earthenware bowl with bird & creatures (1200-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. |
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Persian ceramic bowl with portraits (1200-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Persian ceramic pitcher with sphinxes (1200-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Persian earthenware bowl with enameled riding archer (1200s) at Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH. | Persian earthenware bowl with enameled royal court (1200s) at Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH. |
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Fritware beaker with painting of dancing women (1200-19) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Tiled prayer niche (1226) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Enameled earthenware bowl with couple (early 13thC) from Iran at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Earthenware vase with religious script (13thC) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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Fritware decanter with overglaze slip-painting (late 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware bowl with underglaze painting (early 13thC) from Kashan, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware bowl with underglaze painting (early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware incised & glazed pot with four handles (early 13thC) from Neyshabur, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Luster Fritware bowl painted with mythical winged elephant (early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware basin painted with fowl & rabbits (early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware bowl painted with camel train (early 13thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Persian blue-glazed fritware ewer & bowl (late 13th- early 14th C) prob. from Kashan, Iran at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, QC. |
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Persian ceramic bowl with deer (1300-99 CE) at Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY. | Fritware bowl painted with Arabic script (early 14thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware bowl painted blue & brown with bird & Arabic script (14thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware fritware star-shaped tile with phoenix (1292-3) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. |
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Fritware tile painted blue & brown with two men (early 14thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware frieze tile painted with phrase from Quran (early 14thC) from Kashan Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware frieze tile painted with phrase from Quran (early 14thC) from Kashan Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware building tile (late 14thC) from Iran Central Asia (now Uzbekistan) at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Fritware jar with underglaze slip-painting (14thC-15thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Bowl with six-pointed star (end 14thC) from Iran at Huntington Museum of Art. Huntington, WV. | Earthenware fritware dish with flower & leaf designs (1450-1500) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Partridge-shaped pitcher (oenochoé) (15thC) from Tabriz?, Iran at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. |
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Persian ceramic mosaic of lion attacking a cow (15th-16thC) at Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA. | Gombroon ware bowl (1500-1600) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Kubachi ware bowl (1550-1650) from Iran at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Collection of modern Iranian ceramics (16th-19thC) at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. |
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Iranian ceramic bottles (1600-50; 18thC; & 17thC) bottles at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Ceramic base of hookah with jumping gazelles on floral ground (17thC) from Iran at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Ceramic hookah base (c1650) from Kirman?, Persia at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Iranian ceramic blue-glazed pitcher & basin (17thC) at Beaux-Arts Museum. Lyon, France. |
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Ceramic pear-shaped bottle (17thC) from Iran at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Ceramic plate (17thC) from Iran at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Fritware dish with underglaze painting (17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware dish with underglaze painting of flowers (17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Fritware ewer with underglaze painting of plant (17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Luster Fritware ewer with painting of cock (17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware bottle with raised design of hunter capturing lion with rope (early 17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Reverse side of Fritware bottle with raised design of winged bull (early 17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Fritware dish with underglaze painting of court character (early 17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Fritware dish with underglaze painting of court lady (early 17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware tile with over-glaze painting of section of man writing (17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Panel of glazed earthenware architectural tiles (17thC) Iran at Huntington Museum of Art. Huntington, WV. |
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Iranian ceramic plaque with man & woman riders (18th-19thC) at Beaux-Arts Museum. Lyon, France. | Ceramic tile painting with mounted cavalier & mythical Simurgh bird (19thC) from Isfahan, Iran at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Ceramic vase with building & birds (19thC) from Iran at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Fritware tile embossed & painted with Iranians in traditional dress of 1600s (2nd half 19thC) from Tehran, Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Earthenware tiles with birds (19thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Earthenware tile with two Persian figures (19thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. | Persian earthenware jar painted with figures on a hunt (c1850-75) at Wightwick Manor. Wolverhampton, England. | Stoneware vase in Turkish-Persian style (1916) by Andre Metthey at Ceramics Museum of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. |