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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 277601, member: 2844&quot;]You&#039;re right, Kashan lustre has no equal in antique lustre ware.</p><p>I was thinking Kashan as well (and hoping, because of an ancestral connection), but I haven&#039;t yet found Kashan ware with a relief frieze like this one. Which doesn&#039;t mean it can&#039;t be Kashan, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kashan kept on producing lustre ware, though with the restriction of depicting people and animals. During the later Mongol period the Mongols took on the Fatimid faith, which did allow the depiction of animals, so a piece like this could have been made. And Timur (Mongol-Turkic), who ruled Iran from 1370-1405, was a great patron of the arts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Museums collect from a historic viewpoint. As long as a piece is a good example of a certain style or era, it is fine. But it is the collectors who determine the market, therefore the value.</p><p>Most museums can&#039;t pay the price rich collectors pay, and do their own, deliberately visible, restoration. White restoration also serves to illustrate that a certain item came from an archeological site, which makes the story more interesting to visitors. But it does nothing for the value. The damage to this vessel just points to a later breakage, and sadly diminishes the value significantly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, being an extremely modest collector, I would buy this vessel (without the lamp) in a heartbeat...... as long as the price was right. I wouldn&#039;t buy to sell, I would keep it as a connection to the world of my ancestors, so I wouldn&#039;t mind the damage. It is a gorgeous piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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