A QAJAR UNDERGLAZE PAINTED POTTERY JAR DEPICTING COURT PLEASURES
PERSIA, SIGNED BY 'USTAD SAFER ALI', 19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £800 - £1,000
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
of squat pear-shape with short cylindrical neck, decorated in polychrome on a predominantly brown and blue ground with four large medallions containing figures in a landscape including a musician, maidens sampling wine, and a courtier sampling wine, the latter medallion with the artist's signature
Dimensions
32.8cm high, 21.8cm diameter
Footnote
For a large Qajar tile signed by the same artist, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 17 April 2007, lot 264.