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

Dish

17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The eight brackets and lobes of the rim correspond to eight panels and their dividers which are painted over the flange and well. A bird in flight amidst clouds and vegetal features alternates with a peach branch with or without a bee. An eight-bracket Kraak frame surrounds the centre which is filled with a standing crane on a spotted rock under a pine treee and a tufted Kraak cloud. A mixture of two birds in flight, a lotus pad and rounded lateral rocks fill the left half of the centre. Eight panels with a leafy peach and their comma dividers decorate the outside.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware
Brief description
Fritware dish, eight Kraak panels with birds, peach branches and bees around centre of standing crane on rock under pine tree and cloud with two birds and lotus pad on left, made in Iran, 17th century
Physical description
The eight brackets and lobes of the rim correspond to eight panels and their dividers which are painted over the flange and well. A bird in flight amidst clouds and vegetal features alternates with a peach branch with or without a bee. An eight-bracket Kraak frame surrounds the centre which is filled with a standing crane on a spotted rock under a pine treee and a tufted Kraak cloud. A mixture of two birds in flight, a lotus pad and rounded lateral rocks fill the left half of the centre. Eight panels with a leafy peach and their comma dividers decorate the outside.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.9cm
  • Width: 26.8cm
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
2795-1876

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Record createdJune 4, 2009
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