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A PANEL OF LATE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY TILES
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A PANEL OF LATE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY TILES

PROBABLY ISFAHAN, CENTRAL IRAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PANEL OF LATE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY TILES
PROBABLY ISFAHAN, CENTRAL IRAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The twenty-eight tiles together forming a frieze, the majority of tiles painted in blue with fine radiating floral sprays, the upper and lower tiles also with a blue ground border of meandering flowering vine between plain blue stripes, edges chipped, mounted together on board
27 1/8 x 47 5/8in. (69 x 121cm.)
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Lot Essay

Identical tiles are used in the dado of the church of Saint Stephen in New Julfa, Isfahan (Carswell, John: New Julfa, Oxford, 1968, p.43 and pl.29). Those examples are thought to date from the late 17th or 18th century.

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