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

Bottle

ca. 1690 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bottle of tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels. Body of inverted-baluster shape surmounted by a thin neck which swells into a bulb below the spreading lip. Octagonal in section throughout. Decoration consists of two sprays of leaves and flowers with birds and insects flying above them and between them are two winged putti holding leaf sprays. Round the lip is a blue dentil border.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels
Brief description
Bottle of tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels, Delft, ca. 1690.
Physical description
Bottle of tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels. Body of inverted-baluster shape surmounted by a thin neck which swells into a bulb below the spreading lip. Octagonal in section throughout. Decoration consists of two sprays of leaves and flowers with birds and insects flying above them and between them are two winged putti holding leaf sprays. Round the lip is a blue dentil border.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.6cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Production
Attributed by Frits Scholten of the Rijksmuseum, 21/01/98
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.94-1951

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Record createdAugust 12, 1998
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