ISFAHAN, IRAN, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE
Isfahan, Iran, first half 18th century
Comprising the head and shoulders of an attendant male figure with elaborate blue and yellow striped turban, wearing a turquoise and yellow chequered coat and holding a blue glass bottle, an indigo border to one side with yellow arabesques interlaced with white cloudband motifs, slight chipping around edges, four deep depressions on the underside together with the stencilled black number 506G
9 3/8in. (23.7cm.) sq.

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Lot Essay

A similar tile with single larger figure was sold in these Rooms 15 October 2002, lot 212. A number of other tiles from the same group recently appeared at auction in Paris from the collection of Hayaux du Tilly (Boisgirard, C and Kévorkian, A: Arts d'Orient, Paris, 14 February 2002, lots 265-269). They shared with our tile the colour scheme, the four domical depressions on the underside, and a similar drawing style. The pink seen in a number of those tiles helps confirm a dating from the end of the Safavid period.

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