A PANEL OF SIX POLYCHROME-PAINTED KUBACHI POTTERY TILES
Kubachi, Safavid North-Eastern Iran, 17th century

Each of square shape, painted in cobalt blue, bright red, ochre yellow, and green with black outlines under a transparent glaze against a white background, decorated with lobed yellow and red-highlighted rosette roundels in-filled with distinctive floral bouquets and tufts of green including tulips, rosettes, prunus blossoms, hyacinths, and frilled poppies, set against dense cobalt blue-painted grounds with curly Chinese cloudbands and arabesque patterns, mounted in a modern dark hardwood frame, each tile 17.7cm x 17.7cm, 39.2cm x 57.4cm including the frame.

*Accompanied by the Oxford Authentication Certificate with thermoluminescence analysis report no. N122g53.