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

jar

Jar
ca. 1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This pickle jar or martaban has a swelling body rising out of a flared foot and a short neck. It is painted with an encircling scene of a tiger hunt in which men with rifles aim at a group of tigers shown on a grassy green ground. There are decorative bands of acanthus leaf and petal motifs above and below this scene


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titlejar (generic title)
Materials and techniques
fritware with underglaze decoration
Brief description
Earthenware jar and cover, Jaipur, about 1880
Physical description
This pickle jar or martaban has a swelling body rising out of a flared foot and a short neck. It is painted with an encircling scene of a tiger hunt in which men with rifles aim at a group of tigers shown on a grassy green ground. There are decorative bands of acanthus leaf and petal motifs above and below this scene
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.2cm
  • Width: 25.4cm
Object history
Jaipur School of Art produced pottery in the late 19th century after one of the pupils of Bhola, who was a chief artist of Delhi fritware, introduced the technique. As the pieces were made of a mixture of feldspar and starch they could not be thrown on a wheel but were either raised by hand or in a mould. Pickle jars or martabans, as they were locally known, owing to the fort on the coast of Burma through which they were imported into India, were first copied in Delhi and later at Jaipur, where they were decorated in response to European taste. See Watt, Sir George,Indian Art at Delhi: being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-03, Calcutta, n.d, p.90.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
IS.2-1964

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Record createdMarch 27, 2003
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