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A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
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A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH

PROBABLY MASHHAD, IRAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
PROBABLY MASHHAD, IRAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
Of shallow form with gently cusped rim, the white ground decorated under the glaze in black and blue, the central roundel with a depiction of three deer in a forest, within a cusped border of swirling tendrils, the cavetto incised with lappet design, the exterior with a fungus scroll border near the foot, the base with four pseudo-Chinese characters in black, intact with some pitting to the glaze
15 ¼in. (38.7cm.) diam.
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A very similar dish to that offered here is in the Royal Ontario Museum, attributed to Mashhad (ROM.80; Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason, Patricia Proctor and Eileen Reilly, Persian Pottery in the First Global Age, vol.I, 2014, fig.2.35A and B, p.82). Like ours, the Ontario dish is characterized by a lightly cusped rim, blank cavetto with incised lappet design, and central motif derived from Chinese 16th century models - in that case waterfowl, here deer, both in a landscape amidst foliage. The back of both dishes are blank except for a wide band with 'fungus scroll'. The Ontario dish is attributed to Mashhad.

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