Lot 260
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AFTERNOON SESSION AT 2.00 P.M. PRECISELY (Lots 260 - 384) THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
A PAIR OF PERSIAN KIRMAN-STYLE PORCELAIN OVOID VASES, the white- ground decorated with four large dark-blue-ground lozenge shaped cartouches reserved with an intricate arabesque pattern, outlined with gilt, the long narrow neck similarly decorated, the pinched base with a similar band of scrolls outlined with a green band, probably 19th Century

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A PAIR OF PERSIAN KIRMAN-STYLE PORCELAIN OVOID VASES, the white- ground decorated with four large dark-blue-ground lozenge shaped cartouches reserved with an intricate arabesque pattern, outlined with gilt, the long narrow neck similarly decorated, the pinched base with a similar band of scrolls outlined with a green band, probably 19th Century
47 cm high (2)

Lot Essay

These wares used to be erroneously ascribed as Chinese for the Persian or Ottoman market.

C.f W. E. Cox, Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. I, p. 319 for an illustration of a Persian porcelaneous Kirman vase of the early 17th Century with similar shape and lozenge motifs.

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