A Large Safavid blue and white dish, Persia, 17th century

of shallow form with a wide everted rim supported on a narrow short foot, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, the well with a flowering plant enamating from a leafy outcrop issuing palmette sprays on a bed of foliate scrolls, the cavetto and rim with seven cusped cartouches enclosing flying cranes on a lotus scroll ground reserved against spiralling tendrils of saz rosette, the reverse with sprays of peony, pseudo-Chinese mark to base