A COPPER-LUSTRE POTTERY DISH WITH A PAIR OF PEACOCKS
Iran, 18th century

Of shallow rounded shape, resting on a short circular foot, with an everted flat rim, the body painted in copper lustre against a white ground, the centre decorated with two addorsed peacocks with tall tails amidst lush vegetal sprays and floral bloom, the cavetto plain, the rim with cusped cartouches with intertwined split palmette trellis, the exterior repeating the same floral and vegetal sprays in the centre with rosettes, saz leaves and carnations, 24.5cm diam.