Mokhfia aux quatre feuilles
Morocco, Fez, circa 1800
Ceramic with painted polychrome enamel decoration under a transparent glaze and on a white slip. This bowl resting on a pedestal is decorated with four jasmine flower leaves, distributed around a four-petal clover, and separated by palmettes and agave flowers. Marli underlined by a frieze of seedlings. (Chips, good quality).
H. 14 cm. D. 31 cm
An early Moroccan pottery dish, Fes, circa 1800
French private collection from the Bordeaux region, established before 1984.
Related work :
For a 17th-century mokhfia from Fez with the same jasmine flower motif, see A. Tazi, 'La céramique ancienne de Fès', ed. Marsam, Rabat, 2006, p.149
