A Kashan black and turquoise pottery bowl with water-weed design, Persia, early 13th century

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Spink & Son Ltd., London, 18 October 1994.
Stephen Garratt Collection, England.

Treasures of the Courts, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 18 October - 4 November 1994.
The Arts of Islam, Hayward Gallery, London, 8 April-4 July 1976.
Islamic pottery 800-1400 AD, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1 October-30 November 1969.

Treasures of the Courts, Spink & Son, London, 18 October-4 November 1994, cat. no.4.
The Arts of Islam, Hayward Gallery, London, the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976, p.247, no.356. 
Islamic Pottery 800-1400, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1969, no.156.

The water-weed design first appears in Persian underglaze-painted wares in the early thirteenth-century. These wares, decorated using a brush, superseded the earlier and more-labour intensive slip-carved "Silhouette wares". The brush had several advantages over the knife: not only did it speed up the design process, but it also allowed for more fluid and painterly decoration, of which this bowl is a fine example.

These wares were produced for export as well as for the domestic market and were closely imitated at the Raqqa potteries of northern Syria. For a discussion of the impact of Persian underglaze-painted designs on Raqqa and Fustat in the first half of the thirteenth century, see H. Philon, 'Stems, Leaves and Water-Weeds: Underglaze-painted pottery in Syria and Egypt', J. Raby (ed.), The Art of Syria and the Jazira, 1100-1250, Oxford, 1985.