A Safavid Polychrome Pottery Bottle Vase, Kirman, Persia, 17th Century

of flattened spherical form with a spreading pedestal foot and tall tapering neck, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and red slip with linked palmette-shaped panels of interlacing arabesques in red with attached palmette pendants in blue against a background of flowering plants, the flanks decorated with floral sprays in red, the neck with later Qajar-period engraved brass mount

Intact, neck reduced and fitted with later Qajar-period mount, two chips to the foot, as viewed
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