Spittoon
ca. 1650-1700 (made)
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The designs on Safavid lustreware are purely Iranian, and owe nothing to Chinese designs, so prevalent in underglaze blue painted wares. Potters revived a three-hundred year old Iranian decorative technique in the second half of the Seventeenth century. However, the sources for the designs are found in contemporary manuscript illuminations, some dated about 1675.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration |
| Brief description | Spittoon, fritware, cobalt blue ground, overglaze painted with ruby-coloured lustre; Iran, 1650-1700. |
| Physical description | Spittoon-shaped vessel, fritware, carinated shoulder, covered in a cobalt blue ground, glazed, overglazed painted with a metallic ruby lustre with bands of split-palmettes. |
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| Summary | The designs on Safavid lustreware are purely Iranian, and owe nothing to Chinese designs, so prevalent in underglaze blue painted wares. Potters revived a three-hundred year old Iranian decorative technique in the second half of the Seventeenth century. However, the sources for the designs are found in contemporary manuscript illuminations, some dated about 1675. |
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| Accession number | 560-1889 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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