Large dish decorated with blue spots, Timurid Eastern Iran, Nishapur, 15th century Slightly hollow dish on a small circular base in siliceous ceramic, decorated on a white background with a transparent glaze of blue polylobed spots, circled in black and with a spiral heart. Black lines and spirals painted on the reverse. Diameter: 33.2 cm Broken, glued back together, parts restored, iridescence. A dish similar in form and decoration is preserved at the Metropolitan Museum in New York under inventory number 38.40.294. A Timurid Large Nishapur Dish, Eastern Iran, 15th century Philippe Magloire Collection - Lots 132 to 207