A Kashan ewer with spouted neck, Persia, late 12th/early 13th century

the fritware body of globular form with a tall thin neck and splayed mouth with thin spout, the white ground covered by a transparent glaze, old collection label near foot

Perpetual Glory, Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnick Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

O. Pancaroglu, Perpetual Glory, Medieval Islamic Ceramics From The Harvey B. Plotnik Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p. 92, no. 49.

Intact except for missing handle with apparent breaks to handle base on body and along back of spout including some restoration to external edge of spout with associated overpainting, craquelure to glaze on surface, part of body covered in a layer of iridescence, as viewed.
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