A SAFAVID POTTERY BALUSTER VASE

A SAFAVID POTTERY BALUSTER VASE

IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

With short sloping rim, the white slip decoration applied on brown ground under transparent glaze, the body decorated with angled swaying floral sprays alternating with long branches, the intersticies with further rosettes and tendrils, two lines bordering the shoulder decorated with Chinese clouds and trefoil palmettes, the base with thin radiating petals, crackelure, repaired breaks

10 7/8in. (27.5cm.) high