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Plate17th century

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Ceramic plate with cream crackled glaze, painted with two blue-robed standing figures among flowering plants in the center, and a dense floral border in cobalt, green, and rust red

Unknown, Plate, 17th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Plate
Place Made
Northwestern Iran, probably Kubachi
Date Made
17th century
Medium
Fritware, underglaze painted
Dimensions
2 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (6.35 x 33.97 cm)
Credit Line
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
M.73.5.244
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Islamic Art: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Golombek, Lisa, Robert B. Mason, Patricia Proctor, and Eileen Reilly. 2014. Persian Pottery in the First Global Age: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Vol. 1 of Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

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