A large Sultanabad pottery dish
Persia, 14th Century
of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and black on a cream ground with a central roundel containing a hexagonal medallion filled with foliate motifs, the sides with a series of palmettes containing floral motifs, the exterior with a repeat of panels containing floral vines, with fitted box
34.2 cm. diam.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private Belgian collection acquired at Mansour Gallery, London, on the 14th of February 2001, and thence by descent.
Christie's, Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Works from the Simon Digby Collection, 7 April 2011, lot 80.

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