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

Footed Bowl

1650-1725
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl or footed bowl of fritware, of low shallow cylindrical form on a tall spreading foot. The sides are pierced with a geometric design, and the exterior base of the bowl is painted in underglaze blue and the interior centred with a blue rosette, surrounded by floral sprays in chromium green-black, and the rim is picked out with a band of three short black dashes repeated, covered in a clear colourless glaze the fills in the reticulation.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, pierced, underglaze painted, glazed
Brief description
Footed bowl, fritware, pierced rim, painted in underglaze cobalt blue and black, Iran, 1650-1725
Physical description
Bowl or footed bowl of fritware, of low shallow cylindrical form on a tall spreading foot. The sides are pierced with a geometric design, and the exterior base of the bowl is painted in underglaze blue and the interior centred with a blue rosette, surrounded by floral sprays in chromium green-black, and the rim is picked out with a band of three short black dashes repeated, covered in a clear colourless glaze the fills in the reticulation.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.3cm
  • Diameter: 12.7cm
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
"Gombroon-painted ware"
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1962-1910

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Record createdFebruary 3, 2009
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