the globular body turning subtly inward before rising into a flared undulating rim, covered overall in an ivory-colored glaze, the creamy glaze cut away around the body leaving a scrolling foliate pattern reserved against the underlying pale gray glaze, the unglazed base dressed in brown and centered with a recessed ring

Collection of Dikran G. Kelekian (1867-1951).
Sotheby's New York, 26th March 1999, lot 296 (part lot). 

Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre, Paris, 1914.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1917.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1931-48.

The interior rim with three flake chips, the exterior rim with a large flake chip. The rim with a hairline crack approximately 1/2 inch in length. There is erosion to the glaze overall, particularly along the rim revealing the biscuit underneath. The glaze with overall russet colored craguelure. The surface is worn but with a light polish on the exterior and matte on the interior.
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