Stunning Old Presumed Persian Plate in Brilliant Color (with Many Watching Eyes!) box of safety pins attached with old iron nails

attached with old iron nails

I love it's silhouette

This is one of several old photos I purchased yesterday at the Papertown show in Boxborough

I pass by a lot of old pyrographed boxes as the imagery tends to be fairly repetitive

Stunning Old Presumed Persian Plate in Brilliant Color (with Many Watching Eyes!) box of safety pins attached with old iron nailsHard to beat the brilliantly colored glazing on old Persian and Ottoman pottery. This plate I believe is Persian (there is a record of it sold as part of a Persian pottery grouping by Grogan & Company auction house, Boston) and appears to have have at least a few centuries on it. I keep thinking that the sun like reddish pink form at center, surrounded by leafy greens, looks like a big joyful radish. And the border like a perimeter of all seeing eyes.