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

Bowl

1808 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl of buff-coloured fritware, painted with blue on a white slip and covered with a clear glaze. The sides are further decorated with pierced designs of four peacocks in pairs alternating with trees, which are filled in with a transparent glaze, and the intervening spaces are painted with close spirals. Inside on the bottom is a landscape.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware with underglaze decoration, painted over white slip and pierced
Brief description
Bowl of buff-coloured fritware, painted with blue on a white slip and covered with a clear glaze, Iran, 1808.
Physical description
Bowl of buff-coloured fritware, painted with blue on a white slip and covered with a clear glaze. The sides are further decorated with pierced designs of four peacocks in pairs alternating with trees, which are filled in with a transparent glaze, and the intervening spaces are painted with close spirals. Inside on the bottom is a landscape.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.5cm
  • Diameter: 22.5cm
Credit line
Given by Sir Charles Marling
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
209-1906

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Record createdMarch 24, 2009
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