PROBABLY TABRIZ, IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE "KUBACHI" POTTERY DISH
PROBABLY TABRIZ, IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With lightly rounded profile on short ring foot and with sloping rim, the decoration on blue ground with floral sprays and branches swaying around a central flower branch, a bird and a stylized butterfly above, the cavetto decorated with black panels, the rim with reserved palmettes against cobalt-blue ground, craquelure and chips to the foot, otherwise intact
13 5/8in. (34.6cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Although Tabriz was vulnerable to Ottoman attacks, it was also permeable to Ottoman artistic influences and open to Ottoman styles and techniques. The present dish is decorated with a floral theme of sweeping branches and floral stems usually seen on polychrome "Kubachi" dishes. It shows a distinct debt to Iznik pottery of the second half of the 16th century.

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