Enrica Medugno
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Lot 98*,R
A Safavid lavender-glazed moulded pottery bottle Persia, 17th Century
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,304 inc. premium
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A Safavid lavender-glazed moulded pottery bottle
Persia, 17th Century
Persia, 17th Century
the body of globular form with conical terminus, surmounted by a tall neck with flaring rim, the body moulded and decorated with almond-shaped protrusions to the shoulder
24 cm. high
24 cm. high
Footnotes
Provenance
Private UK collection.
Safavid monochrome glazed wares were derived from Chinese celadon and are one of the most characteristic productions of the Safavid period. For examples of lavender glazed Safavid pottery sold at Christie's, see Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds, 7 April 2011, lot 138 & Islamic, 11 April 2000, lot 344. For further examples of Safavid monochrome wares, see Arthur Lane, Later Islamic Pottery, London 1957, pls. 93-95. The almond-shaped moulded decoration and form of the present lot is comparable to glass examples of the 18th/ 19th century in the Khalili Collection (see S. Goldstein, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art: Glass, Vol. XV, London, 2005, pp. 299-301, nos. 320 & 321).
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