Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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n one system the arts of Asia and of the Mediterranean. It will thenbe seen that the apparently divergent streams of descent have mostly run parallel when they have notintermingled, and that, from the early Middle Ages to the present Persia has been one of the mostimportant centres of transmission and modification. We may then, also, be able to distinguish withcertainty between the various national and local schools of the nearer East, and to trace, step by step,the genesis of their ornamentation. But there are still many gaps in our knowledge which must befilled before this can be satisfactorily done. Some of the old Spanish wall tiles from the unfinished palace of Charles V., on the Alhambrahill, keep, together with their Moorish name (Azulejos), the Moorish lustre. The Spaniards musthave introduced the art into Mexico, for it is practised to this day by Mexican Indian potters. * Persian potters were established there in the fourteenth century.t Most likely of Anatolian manufacture.
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1001 — Bottle. White opaque glaze. Decorated in brownish lustre with metallic reflections, ina pattern of leaves and flowers on the body, and a conventional cypress andarcade pattern about the neck, which terminates roughly to receive a metalmount. Very old Persian, probably of the thirteenth century a.d. Height, 4 inches. 1002 — Flattened Baluster-shaped Bottle. With two small handles for suspension. With decoration of scrolls and foliage in blueand black. The blue has run into the vitreous glaze. Height, 6 inches. 1003 — Puzzle Ewer. With crescent-shaped mouth and S-shaped handle. The foot is open to the middle of the vessel, and panels of open reticulated work make it seem impossible that it should hold a liquid. It is decorated with blue and black. The vitreous glaze has formed a drop depending from the spout. Height, 7 inches. 1004 — Short Cylindrical Bottle, or Vase. White, translucent porcelain, with decorations incised in the paste. Persian. Prob-ably of the fifteenth

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