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An interesting feature of the decoration is how the artist has encircled the flowerhead in the centre with a leafy stem which appears to issue from the rim of the eight-pointed star around it. Such decorative schemes rarely appear in Chinese porcelain, where the scrolls are usually continuous. There is a similar dish in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (EA1978.1484), which appears to have been made in the same workshop. This  workshop has yet to be identified, but it has links with Ottoman production of the period 1510 to 1540 in terms of its fabric and decoration. This suggests that the Safavid dishes may have been produced by Iranian potters who had moved to Turkey or that Ottoman potters were imitating earlier Safavid models. Islamic copies replaced highly prized 'antique' Chinese tablewares no longer in production in these designs.","physicalDescription":"Fritware dish with a foliate rim, decorated in underglaze blue and white with floral designs.Central motif on interior is peony with single vine scroll exiting from bottom and curing around to attach to the surrounding eight-lobed motif on a cobalt background. Band of decoration around inside of bowl blue medallions alternating with blue floral sprays in imitation of the central motif, on a white background. Rim features stylized wave-and-spray pattern. The base has three spur marks and the base ring two later hanging holes.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"fritware","id":"x29419"}],"techniques":[{"text":"underglaze","id":"AAT48642"},{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"},{"text":"firing","id":"AAT53887"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Fritware, decorated in underglaze blue","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Safavid","id":"AAT21712"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AN7980","2006AL3644","2017JU6112"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"145 (VA)","id":"THES49865"},"free":"","case":"30","shelf":"2","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1500-1550","earliest":"1500-01-01","latest":"1550-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"perhaps Tabriz"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"39.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"6.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"\n","briefDescription":"Dish, fritware, with a foliate rim, decorated in underglaze blue with stylized floral designs, Iran (perhaps Tabriz), 1500-1550.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Thompson, Jon and Canby, Sheila, <i>Hunt for paradise : court arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-1576</i> Milano : Skira, 2003","id":"AUTH354799"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Yolande Crowe, <u>Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum 1501-1738</u>, Geneva, Switzerland and London, 2002, cat. no. 1, p. 50."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason, Gauvin A. Bailey, <u>Tamerlane's tableware : a new approach to the chinoiserie ceramics of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iran</u>, Costa Mesa, California, (Mazda Publishers in association with Royal Ontario Museum) 1996, p. 153."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Marina Whitman, <u>Persian Blue-and- White Ceramics: Cycles of  Chinoiserie</u>,  University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1978, fig. 47."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ernst J. Grube, 'Notes on the Decorative Arts of the Timurid Period,' in  A. Forte et al. (eds.) <u>Gururajamanjarika Studi in Onore di Giuseppe  Tucci</u>, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 233- 80, fig. 26."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Y. Brunhammer,<i><i> 'Céramiques dites de Koubatchi', </i></i><u>Cahiers de la céramique et des arts du feu</u>, Vol. 5, Sèvres, 1956-57, pp. 24-34, pl. 5.\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"Lane, Arthur. 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London: Faber and Faber, 1957.","id":"AUTH407102"},"details":"pp.34, 36 78 & 93, pl. 21A.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Arthur Lane,  'The So-called 'Kubachi' Wares of Persia', <u>Burlington  Magazine</u>, vol. 75 (October 1939) 156-163, pl.I.E."}],"production":"Bought from Kubachi (Daghestan), Caucasus\r\nKubachi Assemblage","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"DISH\r\nWhite earthenware painted in blue.\r\nBrought from Kubachi in Daghestan (Caucasus).\r\nNORTH PERSIAN; second half of 15th century.","date":{"text":"Used until 09/2003","earliest":"2003-09-01","latest":"2003-09-30"}}],"partNumbers":["562-1905"],"accessionNumberNum":"562","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1905,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LV0023"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2003-04-03","availableToBook":false}}