Dish

Description

Dish, earthenware, blue and white ware, painted in dark blue and brown under a translucent glaze with a flowering tree in a landscape and a floral border: Asia, West Asia, Iran, Safavid period, c. 1690-1720

Museum reference

A.1888.55

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish

Production information

Iran, West Asia

Date

1690 - 1720

Style / Culture

Iranian
Safavid

Materials

Clay, Quartz, Quartz, Pigment, Glaze

Physical description

Round earthenware dish with straight rim, cream-coloured ceramic body covered with a quartz rich slip, painted inside and outside in shades of bright dark blue and covered with a translucent colourless glaze; the rim painted brown; interior decoration: centre - inside a double circle a landscape with a flowering tree, hills, bushes, possibly a bridge and a bird, the petalled flowers surrounded by dotted lines; the well plain; the flange with a continuous pattern of scrolls, leaves, and flowers between an inner straight line and and a lobed outer line; exterior decoration: between single lines, painted over flange and well, three symbols (The Pair of Books, The Painting, and The Chessboard, standing at an angle) from the Chinese po-ku, or The Hundred Antiques, all tied with ribbons; a double line around the footring; interior of footring with a bubbly, quartz rich slip, the painter's mark in the centre, unglazed, a paper label referring to M. Richard's collection as well as his numbering ('no 90'); interior of dish with a small hole in glaze, blue partly running into glaze, brown pigment unevenly applied; condition: glaze worn in the centre and scratched all over, dirty; a few brown stains, rim and footring with a few chips.