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

Bottle

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

Bottle of porcelain, with depressed globular body divided into horizontal bands containing varieties of ornament derived form lotus petals. The upper band is worked in hatched blue; the second has three panels parted by triangles containing a trefoil device on a green ground dotted with black. Below this is a third band containing a zigzag leaf pattern; and finally round the foot a border of pointed green petals.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels
Brief description
Bottle, porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels; Japan, Arita kilns (Imari type), 17th century
Physical description
Bottle of porcelain, with depressed globular body divided into horizontal bands containing varieties of ornament derived form lotus petals. The upper band is worked in hatched blue; the second has three panels parted by triangles containing a trefoil device on a green ground dotted with black. Below this is a third band containing a zigzag leaf pattern; and finally round the foot a border of pointed green petals.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.6cm
  • Diameter: 8.9cm
Styles
Gallery label
Bottle Porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels JAPANESE (Arita kilns, Imari type) About 1700 Given by Mr A.C.A. Rothmann C.367-1926(as at 2005)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.367-1926

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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