ID 1178437
Lot 57 | A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY JAR
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
IRAN, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
The body with a white ground decorated with two large dragons in a horizontal band across the waist beneath a stormy sky with cranes flying, the neck decorated with a floral meander rising to a slightly flared mouth, the base with a small pseudo-Chinese mark, intact
10 ¼in. (26.1cm.) high
Provenance
Private UK collection by 1959 and thence by descent
Further details
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Category: | Jar |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
| Category: | Jar |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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