Lot 251
  • 251

A QAJAR COBALT BLUE AND WHITE CALLIGRAPHIC POTTERY TILE, PERSIA, CIRCA 1900 | Qajar Calligraphic Pottery Tile

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • 24 by 24cm.
decorated with inscription painted in blue relief glaze, mounted, old auction labels to reverse

Provenance

Ex-collection Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017).
Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1948, lot 34 (as indicated by old auction label to reverse).

Condition

The edges chipped, particularly to corners, craquelure to glaze, some pitting and minor abrasion, set onto custom wooden mount with old auction house labels and space for two protrusions of ceramic, with hook for hanging, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

inscriptions

al-faqir ‘abd al-husayn ibn …. Haji ja’far khan mi’marbashi
‘The needy ‘Abd al-Husayn ibn …. Haji Ja’far Khan, the Chief architect’

The 'Abd al-Husayn referred to here was most probably the patron of this tile. There is one reference on Haji Ja’far, an architect who lived during the reign of Muzaffar al-Din Shah to the early Pahlavi dynasty (d.1934).