Accession Number1957/1.84
TitlePlate with radial design
Artist(s)IranianArtist NationalityIranianObject Creation Daten.d.Medium & Supportfritware with blue underglaze paintingDimensions 2 1/4 in x 11 in x 11 in (5.7 cm x 27.94 cm x 27.94 cm)
Credit LineMuseum PurchaseSubject matter"This plate is an example of the Persian ceramist's enthusiasm for the Chinese mode of pottery. It seems to be a derivative of a Chinese type which is the epitome of 'export porcelain', having been a distinct category of 16th century blue and white known to have been shipped as far as Portugal and Holland. It is also well represented in the vast collection of ceramics established in Ardabil by Shah Abbas in 1611."
Physical Description"Produced in the Wan Li era (1573-1619), the Chinese prototypes are more tightly controlled and more elaborate that the museum's Persian version. In place of nine rim panels in the Far Eastern piece our bowl has four, more widely dispersed over the rim area and enclosing loosely executed foliate forms. The elaborate scene usually appearing in the center of such bowls here is reduced to a simple bouqet, now in part reconstruction."
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Keywords
Iranian Islamic pottery styles after the Mongols
Islamic
Kubachi
Safavid (Iranian Islamic styles )
Safavid pottery styles
Wanli
blue-and-white (ceramic glaze)
ceramic ware (visual works)
household objects
plates (general, dishes)
seventeenth century (dates CE)