Bottle
ca. 1650-1725 (made)
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Bottle of red earthenware covered with blue and manganese glazes, and with moulded shoulders and two flat sides. The sides are decorated in relief in the Chinese style with a vase containing a lotus and symmetrical floral sprays in turquoise blue on a dark blue ground, and are surrounded by a manganese border. The neck is missing and has been replaced with a silver rim.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Fritware, moulded; metal |
| Brief description | Flask, coarse fritware, of flattened baluster shape relief moulded panels of flower-filled vases, covered with an opaque turquoise glaze, with details in blue and maganese; Iran, 1650-1725. |
| Physical description | Bottle of red earthenware covered with blue and manganese glazes, and with moulded shoulders and two flat sides. The sides are decorated in relief in the Chinese style with a vase containing a lotus and symmetrical floral sprays in turquoise blue on a dark blue ground, and are surrounded by a manganese border. The neck is missing and has been replaced with a silver rim. |
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| Gallery label | Bottle
silver mounts of later date |
| Object history | Formerly the property of the Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A. Purchased from Major W.J. Myers. Bought for £23 with Jug 712-1896. |
| Production | register |
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| Bibliographic reference | Wallis, Henry Illustrated catalogue of specimens of Persian and Arab art : exhibited in 1885, London : Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1885
No.4, plate 1. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 711-1896 |
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| Record created | February 2, 2009 |
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