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It was strategically located at the gateway to the eastern trade routes from Turkey, with a flow of silk and other luxury goods. Although there is no documentary evidence of pottery production in Tabriz, the petrofabric of this dish and a group of other examples is comparable with analysis of the body of Tabriz tiles. The design on the back of the dish, a repeated leaf-like motif identified as the \"weedback\" pattern, appears to have been a specific workshop 'signature' or house-style linking a group of dishes loosely inspired by contemporary rather than 'antique' Chinese originals, aimed at less discriminating clientele.\n \r\n","physicalDescription":"Dish, fritware, large with flat everted rim and narrow footring, painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the centre with an animal identified as a rabbit crouched beneath a tree and leafy plants, surrounded by a plain band and a border of honeycomb pattern derived from designs found on late fifteenth century Ming dynasty porcelain, formed by triple parallel lines centred with a triangle formed of three dots, while the flange features a series of tightly curled waves against a hatched background. The exterior is painted with loose leafy branches which identifies it as part of the so-called \"Weedback\" group. 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Acquired in Kubachi, Dagestan (North Caucasus).","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Y. Crowe, <u>Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738</u>, Thames & Hudson, Geneva, Switzerland and London, 2002, p. 51."},{"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>, Mazda Publishers in association with Royal Ontario Museum, Costa Mesa, California, 1996, p.153.\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Marina Whitman, <u>Persian Blue-and-White Ceramics: Cycles of Chinoiserie</u>, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbour, Michigan, 1978, fig. 62."},{"reference":{"text":"Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. 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