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A BLUE-GLAZED POTTERY DISH
PROBABLY SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
With cusped rim on short foot, decorated with a powder-blue glaze, a repaired break to the rim with an
associated crack, otherwise good condition
12¿in. (30.8cm.) diam.
£5,000-7,000 US$7,000-9,800
€5,800-8,100
This dish is a striking example of the brilliantly coloured ceramics made by Iranian potters under
the Safavid dynasty, who often achieved dramatic effects with glazes of a single colour. The plain
decoration, everted barbed rim and blue glaze of our dish recalls the Iranian potters' imitations of the
prized Chinese celadons. Their popularity coupled with a popular belief that they would reveal poison
encouraged their production from the 14th up to the 17th century. The shape of the present dish relates
to a vessel in the al-Sabah collection dated to the 17th century and illustrated in Oliver Watson, Ceramics
from Islamic Lands, London, 2004, cat.U.20, p.467.

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