An underglaze-decorated pottery dish, probably Bukhara, Central Asia, 18th century

the body with shallow well and stepped rim supported on a solid unglazed red earthenware foot, decorated in cobalt blue, copper green and manganese purple with a large central medallion enclosing a geometric grid of interlocking green and purple squares filled with stiff blue leaves, the rim with an undulating scroll of white leaves on a blue ground and a narrow inner band of ogival cartouches filled with alternating green and purple trelliswork, the back with a plain turquoise outer band and a frieze of stiff leaves in lozenge-form cartouches, label of K.Minassian on underside, vestiges of further labels

Kirkor Minassian, New York, 1930s-40s

intact with spur marks to the interior, rim chips and small glaze losses, the back with heavy craquelure and staining, as viewed
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