POSSIBLY SHIRAZ, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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TWO SAFAVID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILES
POSSIBLY SHIRAZ, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Probably both from the same pictorial panel, the white ground of each with a variety of flowering trees together with cypresses, one with a number of buildings and oversize vases, the other with the lower edges of a further design above stylised hills, one with plain yellow and white stripe borders, slight deterioration of glaze, edges chipped
each 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) square

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Lot Essay

The density of designs on these tiles with their combinations of buildings and trees on a white ground is reminiscent of the tile panels in the church of St. Stephen, in Julfa, built 1613-14 AD. In his discussion of these tiles, John Carswell suggests that they were probably influenced by imported Indian painted cottons (Carswell, John: New Julfa, Oxford, 1968, pp.27-8, col.pl.IV.B and pls.54-5).

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