Dish

Description

Dish, earthenware, blue and white ware, painted in dark blue under a translucent glaze with a veined leaf in the centre, and a border with geometric design underneath the rim: Asia, West Asia, Iran, Safavid period, c. 1690-1720

Museum reference

A.1890.227

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 shades of dark blue and covered with a translucent colourless glaze; the rim painted brown; interior decoration: the centre with a veined leaf flanked by hatched triangles and surrounded by sketchy branches; the well mostly plain, underneath the rim, between a double and a single line, a narrow border with a geometric pattern; exterior decoration: underneath the rim a single thick line; over the well alternating four spirals and four lobed lines; the footring with a double line outside, inside with a bubbly quartz rich slip but unglazed, with three marks of kiln support and the painter's mark in the centre; glaze interior and exterior scratched and stained yellow, dirty, condition: sherd of approx. 30 mm width and 10 mm depth missing from rim, a few chips.

Associations

Paris Exhibition of 1889