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Large Dish with Flying Cranes
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This is a large dish with upturned rim, fluted cavetto, and low, hollow foot ring. The center is painted in under-glaze cobalt blue with a design of four cranes amid clouds. There are three shades of blue, with the darkest used for outlines and stippling. The exterior or underside is sparely decorated with a peach spray. In the center of the foot ring is a faint "tassel mark."
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Private collection London. [Irene Momtaz Momtaz Islamic Art London 2005] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 2005.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gweneth Knight Memorial Fund
Title: Large Dish with Flying Cranes
Description:
This is a large dish with upturned rim, fluted cavetto, and low, hollow foot ring.
The center is painted in under-glaze cobalt blue with a design of four cranes amid clouds.
There are three shades of blue, with the darkest used for outlines and stippling.
The exterior or underside is sparely decorated with a peach spray.
In the center of the foot ring is a faint "tassel mark.
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