The Name of the Rose: Chinese Familie rose

The overall design is characteristic of the types of colored wares produced originally in China and later copied by large potteries in England and Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century. The style used on the bowl’s surface draws inspiration from the Chinese famille rose color palette that had been favored in Iran since being imported from China in the eighteenth century. Arthur Lane and Ralph Hutchinson Pinder-Wilson, Later Islamic Pottery: Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, 2nd ed. (London: Faber, 1971), 85-86; Willem Floor and Jaap Otte, "English Ceramics in Iran 1810–1910," Northern Ceramic Society (NCS) 36 (2020): 76. In famille rose ceramics produced for the Persian market, inscriptions in Persian or Arabic were popular.