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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bottle

ca. 1800-1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase, tin-glazed earthenware, globular bottle-shape, painted in colours and unfired red pigment with arabesque ornaments.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
Brief description
Vase, tin-glazed earthenware, bottle-shape, with arabesque ornaments; Morocco, ca. 1800-50.
Physical description
Vase, tin-glazed earthenware, globular bottle-shape, painted in colours and unfired red pigment with arabesque ornaments.
Dimensions
  • Conversion height: 25.5cm
  • Diameter: 15.4cm
Gallery label
Bottle, tin-glazed earthenware. Painted in colours and unfired red pigment. MOROCCAN (TANGIER); 19th century 3082-1853.(1954)
Object history
Purchased at Street and Sons, Brewer Street
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Nadia Erzini, "'Moorish' Pottery in the Victoria and Albert Museum: the Contribution of George Maw of Maw and Co. to the Knowledge of Moroccan Ceramics in Britain", Morocco: The Journal of the Society for Moroccan Studies 3 (1993), pp. 57-72
Collection
Accession number
3082-1853

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Record createdDecember 19, 2008
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