A TIMURID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH Iran, most possibly...
A TIMURID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
Iran, most possibly Tabriz, beginning 15th-early 16th century
A large pottery dish with a cusped, scalloped rim, painted in cobalt blue with seven chrysanthemum blossoms set against a scrolling vine ground of small leaves, echoed by similar foliate scrolls around the rim, the design ultimately deriving from fifteenth-century Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, which was highly prized in Persia and began to be extensively copied and reinterpreted from the late fourteenth century (although other categories of Chinese ceramics had already been imitated in earlier periods, attesting to the long-standing prestige of Chinese pottery throughout the Islamic world) - Tabriz, in particular, is widely regarded as the centre that produced some of the finest examples of this tradition, both aesthetically and technically.
36cm diameter, 6.7cm high
The border decoration is likewise characteristic of Tabriz production. By contrast, the floral ornament on the exterior is a less common feature. Lisa Golombek has interpreted it as evidence of a transitional phase between the refined rosette-scroll decoration of the finest Tabriz wares and the mass-produced "weed-back" designs that became widespread during the second half of the sixteenth century.
For similar examples:
Bailey, G.A., Tamerlane’s Tableware: A New Approach to Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Iran, Mazda Publishers in Association with Royal Ontario Museum, 1996, plate 72, col. pl. XV.
Golombek, L., Persian Pottery in the First Global Age, Leiden, 2014, cat. no. 3, pp. 286–287.
Golombek, L., Mason, R.B.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. no. 1978.149.
Sotheby's, London, 24 October 2007, lot 160.
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
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A TIMURID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH
Iran, most possibly Tabriz, beginning 15th-early 16th century
A large pottery dish with a cusped, scalloped rim, painted in cobalt blue with seven chrysanthemum blossoms set against a scrolling vine ground of small leaves, echoed by similar foliate scrolls around the rim, the design ultimately deriving from fifteenth-century Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, which was highly prized in Persia and began to be extensively copied and reinterpreted from the late fourteenth century (although other categories of Chinese ceramics had already been imitated in earlier periods, attesting to the long-standing prestige of Chinese pottery throughout the Islamic world) - Tabriz, in particular, is widely regarded as the centre that produced some of the finest examples of this tradition, both aesthetically and technically.
36cm diameter, 6.7cm high
The border decoration is likewise characteristic of Tabriz production. By contrast, the floral ornament on the exterior is a less common feature. Lisa Golombek has interpreted it as evidence of a transitional phase between the refined rosette-scroll decoration of the finest Tabriz wares and the mass-produced "weed-back" designs that became widespread during the second half of the sixteenth century.
For similar examples:
Bailey, G.A., Tamerlane’s Tableware: A New Approach to Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Iran, Mazda Publishers in Association with Royal Ontario Museum, 1996, plate 72, col. pl. XV.
Golombek, L., Persian Pottery in the First Global Age, Leiden, 2014, cat. no. 3, pp. 286–287.
Golombek, L., Mason, R.B.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. no. 1978.149.
Sotheby's, London, 24 October 2007, lot 160.
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
