The Williamson Collection Project: Sasanian and Islamic Survey Ceramics from Southern Iran, Current Research

About two seal‐impressed jars from Tell Abraq (Emirate of Umm al‐Quwain). New evidence for intercultural networks in the lower Arabian Gulf in the late 2nd – beginning of the 1st millennium BC

“…A more recent, detailed study of the Williamson collection by Priestman (2005), corroborated by a field survey designed to test its results (Priestman et al, 2005), essentially confirmed this dating, suggesting a Late Bronze Age to Iron Age date for the corresponding ‘FIG’ ware class, including particular carinated bowls ‘with concave sand‐covered walls below the carination’ (Priestman, 2005, pp. 182–183; see also Priestman et al, 2005, p. 75).…”

A Chinese Porcelain Jar Associated with Marco Polo: A Discussion from an Archaeological Perspective

“…On the basis of the distribution pattern presented in the previous section, another observation, however, counters Ho's argument, and links it more directly to Dehua Qingbai wares. In the Gulf, the distribution of Dehua Qingbai wares in the Minab area of southern Iran has no association with blue and white porcelain, while many blue and white porcelain sherds but no finds of Dehua Qingbai wares have been discovered on the island of Hormuz (see Morgan, 1991; Priestman, 2005). The Kingdom of Ormus re-settled Hormuz Island from Minab in ad 1325 (Aubin, 1953: 102; Piacentini, 1992: 171–73); it therefore seems that the absence of Dehua wares from Hormuz Island would argue against the later date of the ‘dingwei’ clay boxes.…”

“…In the Gulf, site K103 in the Minab area and other sites along the southern Iranian coast have also yielded these classes of wares and ‘Marco Polo wares’ have also been recovered from the port of Qalhat in the east of Oman and the port of al-Nudud, as well as in Kush in the UAE (Morgan, 1991: 70–71; Kennet, 2004: 48–49; Priestman, 2005: 294–95; Scalet, 2016: 24). Only a limited number of reports of similar findings have been noted in Yemen and the Red Sea: al-Shihr has yielded so-called fine Dehua sherds, and a few sherds of Dehua Qingbai stoneware have been reported from the site in Quseir in Egypt (Whitcomb, 1983; Hardy-Guilbert & Rougeulle, 1997; Hardy-Guilbert, 2001, 2005).…”

Zheng He's voyages to Hormuz: the archaeological evidence

“…2011: 447–49). Approximately 300 sherds of Chinese ceramics, including Qingbai stoneware, blue and white porcelain, and Longquan celadon, that have been dated to between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries were found on Hormuz Island (Priestman 2005).…”

“…Longquan celadon was one of the most popular ceramics traded in the Indian Ocean during the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. A small group of Longquan celadon sherds (Figure 6) of common quality found on Hormuz Island has been roughly dated to the mid fourteenth century to mid fifteenth century, according to research by Seth Priestman and Regina Krahl (Priestman 2005). Lin, who has studied southern Chinese celadon for many years,suggested that some sherds in this Longquan celadon group from Hormuz Island belong to the Tong’an-type celadon, which is a kind of imitation Longquan celadon specially produced for export trading (Huo & Lin 2004).…”