Bowl
1600-50 (made)
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This decoration of this bowl and a similar example (1155-1876) in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, imitates desings on Chinese blue and white export porcelain of the Jiajing dynasty (1522-66), or mid sixteenth century, examples of which are found in the Ardebil Shrine in Iran, a courtly collection of Chinese ceramics, deposited at the shrine in North western Iran, before 1611, by Shah Abbas.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, glaze painted in cobalt blue and black |
| Brief description | Bowl, fritware, with painted decoration in blue and black; Iran, 1600-50. |
| Physical description | Bowl, fritware, the exterior painted in underglaze blue and black with six medallions of confronting dragons in reserve, after Chinese originals alternating with ruyi motifs above lappet bands, under a rim border with squirrels amid foliage after a Chinese motif of rats and grapes. The interior with a roundel depicting a seated <>qilin<> or mythical beast in a landscape below a border with scrolling foliage in reserve. Imitation Chinese square mark in black. |
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| Summary | This decoration of this bowl and a similar example (1155-1876) in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, imitates desings on Chinese blue and white export porcelain of the Jiajing dynasty (1522-66), or mid sixteenth century, examples of which are found in the Ardebil Shrine in Iran, a courtly collection of Chinese ceramics, deposited at the shrine in North western Iran, before 1611, by Shah Abbas. |
| 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. 68, p. 80. |
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| Accession number | 1468-1876 |
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| Record created | March 18, 2009 |
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