A Timurid blue and white pottery dish with cloud band design, Persia, 15th century. Photo Sotheby's

of deep round form with everted, petalled rim with cloud band motifs, the underglaze cobalt blue design featuring a rosette with cloud band designs, foliate band to exterior; 41.5cm. diam. Estimation 30,000 — 40,000 GBP

A similar dish, with a bracketed rim and central peonie flowerhead is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.562-1905. Whereas the V&A example is attributed to the early sixteenth century, the inclusion of cloud band motifs on the present example more closely follows an aesthetic that can be associated with fifteenth-century Ming export wares (see J.Thompson and S.R. Canby, Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-1576, New York and Milan, 2003, p.253, no.10.6).

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World, London | 09 avr. 2014 - www.sothebys.com