Bottle
ca. 1650-1700 (made)
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Bottle of fritware, with globular body and long cylindrical neck with spreading mouth. Painted in underglaze blue and black withpartridges amid floral scrolls on the body, a leafy-scroll band round the shoulder, columns of imitation Chinese shou (longevity) characters round the neck, and a band of undulating line round the mouth.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, underglaze painted in blue and black |
| Brief description | Bottle, fritware painted in underglaze blue and black with partridges, Iran, 1650-1700 |
| Physical description | Bottle of fritware, with globular body and long cylindrical neck with spreading mouth. Painted in underglaze blue and black withpartridges amid floral scrolls on the body, a leafy-scroll band round the shoulder, columns of imitation Chinese shou (longevity) characters round the neck, and a band of undulating line round the mouth. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Crowe, Yolande. Persia and China: Safavid blue and white ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum 1501-1738. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002, Cat. 230, p. 149. |
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| Accession number | 1127-1876 |
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| Record created | March 16, 2009 |
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