A SULTANABAD POTTERY STELLAR TILE

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A SULTANABAD POTTERY STELLAR TILE
NORTH PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY

Of eight-pointed form, the design partly in relief, the rich cobalt-blue ground with a central white lotus flower issuing a variety of floral sprays and leafy tendrils, the reverse with the outline of another tile design showing two confronted peacocks on a ground of similar floral motifs, intact, glaze slightly degraded
10½in. (26.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar tile is in the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, published in Carboni, S and Masuya,T: Persian Tiles, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, 1993, no. 26, p.31.

The unusual design of two confronted peacocks on the reverse is also found on a bronze dish formerly in the Kevorkian Collection and now on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum dated to the 15th century (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th-18th centuries, London, 1982, fig.64, p.243

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