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

Bottle

1600-1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bottle or flask, coarse fritware, after a glass prototype, of flattened bottle-shape, the long tapering neck terminating in an bulb or garlic-shaped mouth (damaged and reduced in height), above a ridged knop, each side moulded in relief, one side depicting a lion-tamer 'walking' his lion on a chain; the other side shows a winged lion and a qilin-like creature, the whole covered in a transparent green glaze.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, relief-moulded, glazed
Brief description
Bottle with relief decoration under a green glaze; Iran, 17th century
Physical description
Bottle or flask, coarse fritware, after a glass prototype, of flattened bottle-shape, the long tapering neck terminating in an bulb or garlic-shaped mouth (damaged and reduced in height), above a ridged knop, each side moulded in relief, one side depicting a lion-tamer 'walking' his lion on a chain; the other side shows a winged lion and a qilin-like creature, the whole covered in a transparent green glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33cm
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
Styles
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 71, 109, plate 96, for a complete object.
Collection
Accession number
1339A-1876

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2009
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