Bottle
1640-70 (made)
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The garlic head, a reference to the knop or bulge in the neck, is similar to that on Chinese bottles recovered from the San Diego wreck, a galleon sunk in 1600, a short distance away from Fortune Island, Nasugbu, Philippines, which was laden with Chinese export porcelain.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, underglaze painted in blue |
| Brief description | Bottle, fritware, painted in underglaze blue with a design after a Chinese Transitional original (c. 1635); Iran, 1640-70. |
| Physical description | Bottle of fritware, with bulbous body, long neck with knop, known as a "garlic-mouth". Painted in underglaze blue with two stylized irises and their leaves, inspired by Chinese Transitional style tulips, decorate the neck. A band of lighter scrollwork marks the shoulder. A continuous scene with figures runs round the body below rocky islands with huts and trees, and a Transitionalstyle cloud. Part of a blaustrade with a lotus finial separates the usual group of two seated figures wearing hats form another bareheaded and robed figure. There is a band of linked lappets over the base ring. Imitation Chinese "tassel" mark in blue. The top of the "garlic head" above the knop has been broken off and ground down. |
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| Production | Y. Crowe, cat. no. 237. |
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| Summary | The garlic head, a reference to the knop or bulge in the neck, is similar to that on Chinese bottles recovered from the San Diego wreck, a galleon sunk in 1600, a short distance away from Fortune Island, Nasugbu, Philippines, which was laden with Chinese export porcelain. |
| 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. 237, p. 152. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1845-1876 |
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| Record created | March 20, 2009 |
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