Large-footed dish with peony decoration, Iran timourid, early 16th century A large hollow dish with a slightly sloping, scalloped rim resting on a wide circular foot in siliceous ceramic, decorated in cobalt blue under a transparent glaze with a large central peony emerging from foliage, plant stems on the rim and a frieze of spirals on the crosshatched background of the rim. Vegetal decoration of stylized grasses on the outer wall. Diameter: 31.8 cm Four suspension holes, restorations, small edge chips, traces of pernettes. Provenance : Boisgirard & Heeckeren sale, July 11, 1979, lot 86. This type of dish with blue and white sinister decoration on a large heel surrounded by stylized herbs belongs to the so-called "Weedback" group according to Lisa Golombek, who dates it to Tabriz in the first quarter of the 16th century. This stylized grass motif is said to derive from the shape of Yuan lotus petals. Bibliography : GOLOMBEK, Lisa, Tamerlan's Tableware, A New Approach to the Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Iran, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto: 1996, pp 120 - 121. A Timurid "Raised Foot" Dish decorated with a Peony, Iran, Tabriz, early 16th century Philippe Magloire Collection - Lots 132 to 207