DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO 1879-1880

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A CANTONESE ISLAMIC-MARKET INSCRIBED DEEP DISH
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO 1879-1880
The dish is decorated with C-scroll cartouches enclosing figures at various pursuits and birds and butterflies amongst flowers, on a blue ground embellished with lotus scroll. The centre is reserved with a calligraphic roundel indicating this was commissioned by Zell al-Sultan Masoud Mirza, son of Nasir al-Din Shah, dated 1879/1880.
13 ¼ in. (33.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired by Efrosyni Christides, prior to WWII, then by descent within the family

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Lot Essay

The inscription in Farsi reads: Zill-i Sultan sultan Mas'ud amir zadeh yamin al-dawla amjad arfa ashraf hazrat Sa'd farmayesh 1297, which may be translated as ‘Ordered by Zill-i Sultan, sultan Mas'ud prince yamin aldawla, most praiseworthy, most eminent, most noble, his lordship Sa'd’. Zill-i Sultan was the eldest son of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar. He was, for a time, governor of Isfahan.

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