Cup
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.
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Materials and techniques | Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration |
Brief description | Cup, fritware, cobalt blue exterior, overglaze painted in ruby-coloured lustre; Iran, 1650-1700. |
Physical description | Cup, fritware, of tea bowl shape, exterior with cobalt blue ground, glazed, painted with ruby metallic lustre of glazed earthenware with gold and ruby lustre. |
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Gallery label | Cup of glazed earthenware with gold and ruby lustre, Iran, 15th century or 16th century(1888) |
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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 | 556-1888 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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