Bottle
1650-1725 (made)
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A distinctive class of Safavid ceramics is distinguished by moulded decoration and rich glazes. Outlines in raised relief serve to keep apart, more or less successfully, the opaque coloured glazes. The use of opqaue glazes gives the colours a pastel tone that gives the group their distinct character. The range of shapes is also distinctive, mostly sprinklers and pouring vessels.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, moulded, pierced and glazed |
| Brief description | Bottle, fritware, of flattened globular shape, the sides moulded with openwork arabesque panels, covered with lavender-blue and polychrome glazes; Iran, 1650-1725 |
| Physical description | Flask or bottle (sprinkler), fritware, of flattened globular-shape with a tapering neck (damaged and missing), the body moulded with a tear-drop shaped opening, covered on each side with a pierced plaque moulded in relief with arabesques scrolls, framed with moulded stepped wavy bands and below a palmette, covered in a thick opaque flambé-like lavender-blue glaze, the details of the plaques picked out in manganese, yellow and blue underglaze pigments. |
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| Summary | A distinctive class of Safavid ceramics is distinguished by moulded decoration and rich glazes. Outlines in raised relief serve to keep apart, more or less successfully, the opaque coloured glazes. The use of opqaue glazes gives the colours a pastel tone that gives the group their distinct character. The range of shapes is also distinctive, mostly sprinklers and pouring vessels. |
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| Accession number | 1298-1876 |
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| Record created | November 19, 2003 |
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