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

Dish

1650-1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of fritware, decorated in blue and black under a clear glaze. The broad flange is filled with a band of nine rosettes inside four-lobed cartouches and divided by panels of trellises and swastikas. A black band inside the well with sgraffito pseudo-writing. A bracketed frame surrounds the centre with a spotted doe in a landscape with trees, three birds in flight and clouds. The outside decoration consists of two elongated fine stems with a central lotus leaf and smaller sketchy leaves. Two crossed leaves act as dividers with two small triangles against the rim. There are three marks in black on the base.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, <i>sgraffito</i> and underglaze painted decoration
Brief description
Dish, fritware, having a broad matt black band with incised designs (sgraffito) and underglaze painted in blue and black with a seated deer in a landscapte; Iran, 1650-1700.
Physical description
Dish of fritware, decorated in blue and black under a clear glaze. The broad flange is filled with a band of nine rosettes inside four-lobed cartouches and divided by panels of trellises and swastikas. A black band inside the well with sgraffito pseudo-writing. A bracketed frame surrounds the centre with a spotted doe in a landscape with trees, three birds in flight and clouds. The outside decoration consists of two elongated fine stems with a central lotus leaf and smaller sketchy leaves. Two crossed leaves act as dividers with two small triangles against the rim. There are three marks in black on the base.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 38.6cm
  • Height: 7cm
  • Base diameter: 21.5cm
Style
Production
Register
Subjects depicted
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. 280, p. 178.
Collection
Accession number
2815-1876

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Record createdMarch 25, 2009
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