Vase
1400-1500 (made)
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Storage jar, fritware, baluster shaped with tapering cylindrical neck with rolled rim, the octagonal facetted sides, separated by a broad raised band, covered in white slip and painted in underglaze cobalt blue each section with two large flowers or chrysanthemum between interlaced foliate scrollwork and around the neck a broad foliate scroll pattern.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, decorated in dark blue over a white slip |
| Brief description | Jar, fritware, octagonal-sided baluster-shaped, decorated in blue over a white slip, Syria, 1400-1500. |
| Physical description | Storage jar, fritware, baluster shaped with tapering cylindrical neck with rolled rim, the octagonal facetted sides, separated by a broad raised band, covered in white slip and painted in underglaze cobalt blue each section with two large flowers or chrysanthemum between interlaced foliate scrollwork and around the neck a broad foliate scroll pattern. |
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| Gallery label | JAR
Fritware, with underglaze painted decoration
SYRIA; about 1400 to 1450 AD
Purchased from the Harold Wallis Collection with funds from the Bryan Bequest
This piece shows a Chinese design of chrysanthemums on a shape that has been 'Islamicised' by the elongation of the neck. The quality of painting and materials is rougher than that of the Chinese originals.(Used until 11/2003) |
| Credit line | Purchased with funds from the Bryan Bequest |
| Object history | Formerly the property of Henry Wallis (d.1916) and bought by him in Sicily; acquired for the Museum from his son, Harold Wallis. Exhibited on loan at the Museum, 1908-11 (No. 226) and 1917 till date of purchase (No.10), also in the Exhibition of the Faïence of Persia and the Nearer East at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1908, see Catalogue p.2 (A.No.3). Illustrated in H. Wallis, The Oriental influence on the ceramic art of the Italian Renaissance, 1900, fig. 20; see also p. xviii; A. Lane Later Islamic Pottery, 1957, p. 30, pl. 14. |
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| Accession number | C.413-1918 |
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| Record created | November 18, 2003 |
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