SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GOMBROON POTTERY BOWL
SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Of rounded form on a short foot, the white ground decorated underglaze in blue and black, the raised central boss with stylised stars, enclosed by a ring of blue cusped motifs, the cavetto pierced with a repeat pattern of diagonal lines between two rows of dots, the rim marked with intermittent groups of four dots, the exterior plain, the base unmarked, intact
7 3/8in. (18.6cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired UK trade

Further details

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Lot Essay

The name for this particular type of late Safavid porcelain ware derives from the European name for Bandar Abbas, the Iranian port from which it was shipped (Oliver Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, p.478). Similar bowls were sold in these Rooms, 6 October 2009, lot 135 and 17 April 2007, lot 6. Other examples are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C.1956-1910), the Musée Nationale de Céramiques in Sèvres (Jean Soustiel, Céramique islamique: guide du connoisseur, Paris, 1985) and in the British Museum (1878,1230.609).

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