IRAN, LATER 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
IRAN, LATER 17TH CENTURY
With spherical body rising to a tubular neck on short foot, the body with large partridges alternating with floral sprays on cobalt-blue ground, floral meander around the shoulder, the neck with floral sprays, slightly stained, design rubbed on neck, mouth with later silver mount, probably covering chip
11½in. (29.4cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Four very similar bottles are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Yolande Crowe: Persia and China, Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738, London, 2002, nos.226-230, pp.148-9). There is also a related large dish in the Ashmolean museum that has seven partidges decorating it (Gerald Reitlinger, "The interim period in Persian Pottery", Ars Islamica, V, 1938, pp.155-78, no.350.

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