An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Rare Old Persian Pottery

The objects comprised in the following pages of this catalogue were originally collected by an Italian virtuoso, and traveller in the Far East during the last century, when the beauty of such ceramic products coming from Persia began to excite admiration and the cupidity of Euro- pean connoisseurs, who, noting the isolated appearance of the more ancient varieties, rightly assumed that they must be rare in the East; a fact which soon stimulated the taste for such fascinating bibelots as a desideratum for the cabinet. As the collection under our consideration grew in numbers and importance, it also began to attract the attention of amateurs, and thus became known to a family of connoisseurs and collectors living in Ger- many, who, being keen to own such examples of the Persian potter's art, promptly made it their own. Meanwhile these chefs-d'oeuvres were fondly treas- ured, for two or more generations, in their quaint old German palace

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AN ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RARE OLD PERSIAN POTTERY

PREFATORY NOTE

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

EARLY HISTORY AND PERIODS

COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURE

GROUP I. WITH LUSTRED DECORATION

GROUP II. WITH "RICE GRAINED" DECORATION

GROUP III. WITH BLUE AND RED DECORATION

GROUP IV. WITH BLUE DECORATION

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