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AN EARLY SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
PERSIA, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
With sloping cavetto and everted rim on short foot, the white interior painted with a central 'wheel' roundel reserved on a fish-scale hatched ground within a bold triple white and hatched cusped octafoil flowerhead, the cavetto moulded under the glaze with ribbed and incised lines, the rim with diagonal hatching arranged to form a design of lozenge motifs, the exerior with a broad band of continuous vine with scrolling tendrils, rim chips, one with piece of another dish inserted, crackelure with slight staining
15¾in. (40cm.) diam.
