Fine earthenware dish, circular and slightly curved, with polychrome decoration of a mihrab with a flowering vase, the rim decorated with a frieze of foliage on an indigo and sky-blue background, signed in French and Arabic on the front, mark in blue on the back, diameter 31 cm Biography: Mohammed TEMMAM was a famous miniaturist in the same vein as the Racims, whose pupil he was; he was a decorator at Sèvres in 1936 and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Curator of the Museum of the Classic and Moslem Antiquities of Algiers in 1963. Exposed miniatures of 1934 to 1944 in Algiers

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)