'†' 5% Import VAT A KUBACHI WARE TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY...

A KUBACHI WARE TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY BOWL
Safavid Iran, possibly Tabriz, ca. 1600

Stonepaste body, resting on a disc foot and with a wide rim, the surface painted in black with spiky leaves and sinuous tendrils under a turquoise glaze.

32cm diameter

This type of pottery takes its name from Kubachi, a town in the Caucasus, between the Black and Caspian Seas, where numerous examples were discovered. The region encompasses present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and parts of southern Russia. Despite its name, however, Kubachi wares are thought to have been produced in northwestern Iran.

Literature:
Lane, A., The So-Called Kubachi Wares of Persia, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 75, no. 439 (1935): pp. 156-3.

For similar examples:
Metropolitan Museum New York, Acc. No. 30.95.167.
British Museum Acc. no. 1904,0630.1.

Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.

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