Unlike much of the pottery of seventeenth century Iran, in which Chinese-inspired decoration predominates, the lusterwares of this period avoided Far Eastern designs. Most of these objects—all vessels—are relatively small in scale by comparison with earlier periods. They generally bear densely rendered floral designs and brief landscape vignettes with spiky-leafed trees and occasionally birds and animals, as in this shallow dish whose coppery luster decoration is dominated by a spiky-leafed tree perfectly configured to echo the vessel’s circular form.