ORIENT
ORIENT
A plate made of silica-rich clay, covered with an opaque cobalt-blue glaze and overglaze-painted with metallic highlights, iridescent decoration, and geometric Oriental motifs. The underside features a transparent alkaline glaze tinted with a pale green/turquoise hue. The rim is adorned with a frieze of geometric and triangular motifs painted in lustrous brown engobe. Traces of three prongs.
In the 17th-century Safavid style. Possibly period.
D: 21 cm
Fels
For comparison:
Dimand, Maurice S. *A Handbook of Muhammadan Art*. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 209.
Bonhams: October 20–28, 2022, Lot 47
ORIENT
A plate made of silica-rich clay, covered with an opaque cobalt-blue glaze and overglaze-painted with metallic highlights, iridescent decoration, and geometric Oriental motifs. The underside features a transparent alkaline glaze tinted with a pale green/turquoise hue. The rim is adorned with a frieze of geometric and triangular motifs painted in lustrous brown engobe. Traces of three prongs.
In the 17th-century Safavid style. Possibly period.
D: 21 cm
Fels
For comparison:
Dimand, Maurice S. *A Handbook of Muhammadan Art*. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 209.
Bonhams: October 20–28, 2022, Lot 47
