Ardebil Collected Porcelain

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Chinese porcelain collected at the Ardebil mosque near Tabriz in northwest Iran. According to Pope, the collection consists mainly of Yuan and Ming dynasty underglaze blue porcelain, totaling 618 pieces. There are also 80 white porcelain, 58 celadon, 16 yellow glazed, 23 colorful, 7 blue-blue, and 3 brown, for a total of 805 pieces. Of these, 320 are plates. Some of them are now in the collections of the National Museum in Tehran and the Forty Pillar Palace Museum in Isfahan. (Pope,J.A. “Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine)

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