Dish

Description

Dish, earthenware, blue and white ware, painted in bright dark blue under a slightly turquoise coloured, translucent glaze with floral pattern in bracketed panels on the well, surrounding a central flower: Asia, West Asia, Iran, Safavid period, c. 1690-1720

Museum reference

A.1921.1272

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, ceramic body covered with a quartz rich slip, painted inside and outside in different shades of a bright dark blue and covered with a translucent slightly turquoise coloured glaze; the rim painted dark brown; interior decoration: centre with a petalled flower surrounded by four flowers with leaves, set in an nine-pointed star and an outer lobed band; the well with six bracketed panels with flower sprays, the dividers with abstract tassels; exterior decoration: six panels between single lines with a geometrical form reminding of the 'Pair of Books' symbol from the Chinese po-ku, or The Hundred Antiques, surrounded by six dots; exterior footring with a double blue line; inside covered with white quartz slip, two pieces of clay stuck to it; painter's mark faintly visible in footring; interior potentially painted by two different people as the pigment in the centre is rather thickly applied compared to more delicate flowers in panels; glaze worn in centre, scratches on the well; two cracks on rim and yellow stains interior and exterior.