TWO TEHERAN POTTERY TILES

NORTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

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TWO TEHERAN POTTERY TILES
NORTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Each of rectangular form painted with figural designs on a blue ground, the larger with four elegant youths amongst flowers, buildings visible behind, a floral frieze above with minor stripes, framed, the other moulded under the glaze and painted with the central figure of a mounted youth raising his hand to a simurgh flying overhead, buildings behind, an upper interlaced arabesque frieze above, negligible corner chip
14 1/8 x 13in. (36 x 33cm.) and 13½ x 10¼in. (34.2 x 26cm.) (2)

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