Lot 159
  • 159

A Safavid cuerda seca tile, Persia, 18th century

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

of square form, decorated in cobalt blue, yellow, turquoise, white, sage green and manganese, outlined in black with a lotus palmette issuing tendrils and leaves with a cusped palmette reserved on a blue ground flanked by spiked leaves below a composite cloudband palmette

Provenance

ex-Dutch private collection

Condition

in good overall condition, minor chips to extremities, glaze craquelure particularly to areas of white, as viewed
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