FOUR POLYCHROME-PAINTED QAJAR POTTERY VESSELS WITH VEGETAL AND FLORAL MOTIFS Tehran, Iran, second half 19th century Comprising a typical 1880s Tehran circular dish, of shallow rounded shape, resting on a thin foot and rising to a gently everted rim, painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, manganese pink, and antimony yellow with black outlines against a milky white ground, the interior decorated with several concentric bands featuring knotwork in the centre, pink rosette and stylised blue hyacinth or lotus flowers on the cavetto, and paired rosette stems, vegetal festoons and crisscrossed fences on the rim, the exterior plain, 28cm diam.; two vases, the first of globular shape with cylindrical rim, decorated with polychrome floral bouquets against cobalt blue ground on the body and three overlapping vegetal and floral bands on the shoulders and rim, 16cm high, and the latter of conical shape, simpler in design, decorated with polychrome rosette clusters on the sloping sides, 21.3cm high; and a Safavid-revival cobalt blue and black-painted bottle, of typical pyriform shape with a tapering, tubular neck, decorated with scrolling vegetal meanderings, 23cm high.