PROBABLY KIRMAN, SOUTH EAST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID MOULDED SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN VASE
PROBABLY KIRMAN, SOUTH EAST PERSIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
With faceted rounded body and vertical neck on spreading foot, the shoulder with a band of moulded cusped cartouches containing floral sprays glazed in an ice-blue, the flowerheads and the rest of the body with a rich cornflower blue, base of a handle on one facet with moulded lower trefoil terminal, the underside of the foot glazed cream, neck ground down and with finely engraved Qajar brass mount
7in. (17.8cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A bottle of unusual shape in the Victoria and Albert Museum has a very similar design in relief on the side panels, and is decorated using some of the same glazes seen here (Lane, Arthur: Later Islamic Pottery, London, 1957, pl.92A). The body of another bottle from the same mould as that is in the Keir Collection (Robinson, B.W. et.al.: Islamic Art in the Keir Collection, London, 1988, no.C88ii, ill.p.228).

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