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Lot 5007
A Qajar Moulded Pottery Tile
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Iran, circa 1880, polychrome painted decoration against a blue ground, unsigned, rectangular tile depicting two lovers meeting in a floral garden with two attendants, the background architecture appears to be a representation of the Khaju Bridge in Isfahan, presented in a later wood frame.

Tile 12 1/4 x 15 x 1 1/2 in.; frame dimensions 22 1/4 x 25 x 3 in.

Private Collection, California and North Carolina

Area of glaze loss to far right figure's dress; some scattered small edge chips from mounting; posterior colored black.