Enrica Medugno
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Lot 53R
A Safavid underglaze-painted pottery bottle Persia, probably Kirman, 17th Century
23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,840 inc. premium
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Oliver White
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A Safavid underglaze-painted pottery bottle
Persia, probably Kirman, 17th Century
Persia, probably Kirman, 17th Century
of rounded form with flattened profile on a trumpet foot, with tapering neck surmounted by a rounded knop, decorated in cobalt blue on a white ground with large floral scrolls and sprays between two lines of trefoil palmettes above and below, the foot with triangular motifs, the neck with further floral decoration, potter's mark to base of foot
34 cm. high
34 cm. high
Footnotes
Provenance
Acquired in London, 1992.
The taste for blue and white Chinese porcelain within the Islamic world was enduring and widespread. Persian potters probably followed Chinese prototypes, resulting in the limited range of shapes in Safavid blue and white wares (see Y. Crowe, Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1501-1738, London, 2002, pp. 9-10). For a bottle of similar form in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Y. Crowe, p. 30, Fig. 83. For a further example featuring a later Qajar brass mount sold at Sotheby's, see Arts of the Islamic World, 9 April 2008, Lot 200.