Ewer
1630-65, 1800-70 (mounting)
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Ewer, fritware, with a bulbous body identified as a water-pipe (qaliyan), painted on one side with a robed servant with a serving tray and a seated courtier, the other with a bare-legged standing figure drinking from a glass flask, beside a female figure playing the ud seated on a stool, all executed under the glaze in blue with black outlines; mounted with engraved brass handle, spout, neck and lid of later date. Imitation Chinese square mark in black.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, painted under the glaze, with brass mounts |
| Brief description | Ewer for iced water converted from a damaged ceramic water-pipe of pear shape (the neck and spout missing) by the addition of brass mounts, pierced and engraved; the water-pipe is of fritware, painted under the glaze in blue and black with courtiers and servants in a landscape, Iran, 1630-65: the brass mounts added Iran, 1800-70. |
| Physical description | Ewer, fritware, with a bulbous body identified as a water-pipe (qaliyan), painted on one side with a robed servant with a serving tray and a seated courtier, the other with a bare-legged standing figure drinking from a glass flask, beside a female figure playing the ud seated on a stool, all executed under the glaze in blue with black outlines; mounted with engraved brass handle, spout, neck and lid of later date. Imitation Chinese square mark in black. |
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| Object history | Ewers of this type were used for serving chilled drinks. Other ewers of this type in the V&A include 476-1876, 1123-1876, 555-1878, 637-1889, C.217- 1912 and C.220-1912. This object was purchased in Tehran in 1873 by Robert Murdoch Smith. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Crowe, Yolande, Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum (1501-1738) (London : Thames and Hudson, 2002): cat. no. 243, p.154. |
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| Accession number | 468-1874 |
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| Record created | March 10, 2009 |
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