PROBABLY TABRIZ, IRAN, LATE 15TH/16TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY BLUE AND WHITE "KUBACHI" POTTERY DISH
PROBABLY TABRIZ, IRAN, LATE 15TH/16TH CENTURY
With rounded profile, on short ring foot and with sloping cusped rim, the cobalt-blue decoration in the Iznik style and with large rosettes hung on scrolling foliage, the cavetto decorated with petit feu ribbed decoration in red, the rim with rounded medallions arranged between large blue roundels, crackled, repaired breaks, old inventory label to reverse
13 5/8in. (34.8cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The pronounced craquelure of the glaze is typical of the technical failure of Tabrizi potters; this was better addressed by other Iranian potters during the 17th century. The quality of these Chinese-inspired ceramics is not as high as their Yuan and Ming counterparts; the frit body was relatively weak compared to porcelain and the glaze inclined to absorb dirt through the crackles. The present dish is very interesting however for the ribs around the cavetto are not incised in the body - as seen on later Tabriz dishes - nor are they painted underglaze. They have been painted over the transparent colourless glaze and fixed in a second low temperature firing.

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