NORTH IRAN, SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY

Details

A "KUBACHI" BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
NORTH IRAN, SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY
With cusped sloping rim on short foot, the white interior with a central rosette motif flanked by five inverted shaped panels each with a central rosette, the cavetto plain, the rim with a band of reserved part rosettes on blue gorund, the exterior with stylized floral sprays between blue lines, rim chips, crazing to glaze
13 3/8in. (34cm.) diam.

Provenance

Kirkor Minassian, New York (label on underside)
The Madina Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost

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Lot Essay

Like lot 90 in this sale, the present lot belongs to the group of late fifteenth century and early 16th century blue and white pottery attributed to Tabriz (L. Golombek, R. Mason and G. Bailey: Tamerlane's Tableware, Toronto, 1996). The design of this lot is however unusual for the group, particularly the examples executed in blue and white. Close similarities can however be found, particularly in the treatment of the border, with a similarly potted green and black dish in the Keir Collection (O. Watson in B.W.Robinson (ed.): Islamic Art in Keir Collection, London, 1988, no.C43, col.pl.43). The treatment of white rosettes reserved against a dark background is very close.

For a fuller description of the type please see the entry under lot 90.

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