A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY JAR IRAN, FIRST HAL...
A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY JAR
IRAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
The body with a white ground decorated with two large dragons in a horizontal band across the waist beneath a stormy sky with cranes flying, the neck decorated with a floral meander rising to a slightly flared mouth, the base with a small pseudo-Chinese mark, intact
10 ¼in. (26.1cm.) high
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Private UK collection by 1959 and thence by descent
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A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY JAR
IRAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
The body with a white ground decorated with two large dragons in a horizontal band across the waist beneath a stormy sky with cranes flying, the neck decorated with a floral meander rising to a slightly flared mouth, the base with a small pseudo-Chinese mark, intact
10 ¼in. (26.1cm.) high
Provenance
Private UK collection by 1959 and thence by descent