SAFAVID NORTH WEST IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE 'KUBACHI' POTTERY DISH
SAFAVID NORTH WEST IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The white ground decorated in turquoise, cobalt-blue, bole-red, cream and black, with central cusped roundel containing small rosettes and flowerheads amidst stylised palmettes, the rim with repeating vegetal cartouches, the reverse plain, two drill holes to the foot
17 ¾in. (45cm.) diam.

Provenance

With French trade, 18 July 1975 (accompanying label)

Further details

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Lot Essay

At 45cm. in diameter, this Kubachi dish is amongst the largest of the type recorded. The motif of the split palmettes that decorate our dish is found on a Kubachi dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum (819-1904; Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, pl.794B). There the palmettes are filled with an ochre colour ground around small flowerheads where ours are white reserved against the green ground filled with similar flowerheads.

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