A rare Song-style glazed ceramic dish, Persia, 12th century. Estimation  4,000 — 6,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

standing on a short foot with a scalloped border, decorated in a light blue glaze, old inventory and old collection labels to underside; 17.3cm. diam. 

Note: Produced in Persia between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the present dish can be traced back in form and style to the Song period in China. Resembling Xing and Ding porcelain wares of the tenth and eleventh centuries, this dish is an example of the continued admiration and appreciation abroad, particularly in Persia, for Chinese prototypes and export wares, which continued to influence Persian potters for centuries. Two porcelain dishes of similar form are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, inv. no. C.16-1950, and another dish from the Song-period, with a similar creamy light-blue glaze, was sold in these rooms, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 12 July 2006, lot 39.

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World, Londres, 22 avr. 2015