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

Vase

1887 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Tehran (city) (made)

Vase of glazed fritware, with bell-shaped body, painted with flowers in polychrome.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Fritware with polychrome decoration
Fritware
Painted
Glazed
Brief description
Vase, fritware with polychrome decoration, made at Tehran, Iran, 1887.
Physical description
Vase of glazed fritware, with bell-shaped body, painted with flowers in polychrome.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21cm
  • Diameter: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Translation
Work of Husayn
Subject depicted
Flowers
Bibliographic references
  • Oliver Watson, "Almost Hilariously Bad: Iranian Pottery in the Nineteenth Century", in Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century: Tradition, Innovation and Eclecticism, ed. Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Stephen Vernoit (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.333-362
  • Moya Carey, Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A, London, 2017, p.167.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
570-1888

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Record createdApril 7, 2009
Record URL
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