A SAFAVID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
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A SAFAVID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE

IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
The cobalt-blue ground painted with a kneeling figure wearing a yellow coat, a bottle and bowl to one side, rim chips, hair crack
9 5/8in. x 9¼in. (24.4 x 23.5cm.)
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Lot Essay

A figural tile with very comparable drawing and even the glaze surface with slight accretions, depicting a mounted archer shooting back over the rump of the horse is in the British Museum (Porter, Venetia: Islamic Tiles, London, 1995, pl.73, p.78).

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