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Simon Ray

HERON IN FLIGHT 
Iran (Safavid)
17th century
Height: 22.6 cm 
Width: 17.7 cm 

HERON IN FLIGHT

A tile in the cuerda seca technique with an elegant design of a crested heron in flight, finely painted in an unusual and subtle combination of olive green, yellow, ochre, aubergine and dark manganese brown, sharpened by turquoise and greyish blue glazes with dark brown outlines on a white ground.
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