Dish
1650-1700 (made)
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Dish of fritware, decorated in blue and black under a clear glaze. The broad flange is filled with a band of nine rosettes inside four-lobed cartouches and divided by panels of trellises and swastikas. A black band inside the well with sgraffito pseudo-writing. A bracketed frame surrounds the centre with a spotted doe in a landscape with trees, three birds in flight and clouds. The outside decoration consists of two elongated fine stems with a central lotus leaf and smaller sketchy leaves. Two crossed leaves act as dividers with two small triangles against the rim. There are three marks in black on the base.
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Materials and techniques | Fritware, <i>sgraffito</i> and underglaze painted decoration |
Brief description | Dish, fritware, having a broad matt black band with incised designs (sgraffito) and underglaze painted in blue and black with a seated deer in a landscapte; Iran, 1650-1700. |
Physical description | Dish of fritware, decorated in blue and black under a clear glaze. The broad flange is filled with a band of nine rosettes inside four-lobed cartouches and divided by panels of trellises and swastikas. A black band inside the well with sgraffito pseudo-writing. A bracketed frame surrounds the centre with a spotted doe in a landscape with trees, three birds in flight and clouds. The outside decoration consists of two elongated fine stems with a central lotus leaf and smaller sketchy leaves. Two crossed leaves act as dividers with two small triangles against the rim. There are three marks in black on the base. |
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Bibliographic reference | Crowe, Yolande, Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum (1501-1738) (London : Thames and Hudson, 2002): cat. no. 280, p. 178. |
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Accession number | 2815-1876 |
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Record created | March 25, 2009 |
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