A Safavid blue and white pottery huqqa base (ghalian), Persia, 17th century

rising from a low foot-ring, with a domed spout and slender neck with flaring mouth, painted with five panels each containing a stylised creature, with foliate bands and cloud motifs, a pseudo-Chinese mark underneath

In fairly good condition, some chips to rim of mouth with associated restoration and overpainting, some craquelure and dirt in glaze, as viewed.
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For similar examples see Arthur Lane, Later Islamic Pottery, London, 1957, pl. 79A (dated 1641 AD).