TWO CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES

PROBABLY LATE SAFAVID OR ZAND PERSIA, 18TH CENTURY

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TWO CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES
PROBABLY LATE SAFAVID OR ZAND PERSIA, 18TH CENTURY
Each of square form, one with yellow ground painted with parts of a pomegranate tree next to a cypress tree with perching bird, the other with the green edge of a field with flowering vine and bird tail alongside a blue palmette and serrated leaf border with blue and yellow reciprocal trefoil outer border, negligible chipping of glaze
Each approx 9in. (23.5cm.) square (2)

Lot Essay

The fashion for large panels of cuerda seca tiles continued through from the Safavid period well into the 18th century as evidenced by the superbly executed panels in Armenian churches in the Julfa district of Isfahan (Carswell, John: New Julfa, Armenian churches and other buildings, Oxford, 1968).

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