Plate
19th Century
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Plate of earthenware. White body, pearl ware glaze. Transfer-printed in underglaze blue and red in the 'Japan' pattern. The decoration is highlighted with gilding, the rim is gilt with inscriptions painted gilt within a gilt cartouche. The inscription at the top says: ‘al-sultan ibn al-sultan’, ie ‘The Sultan, son of the Sultan', the inscription at the bottom says: ‘Fath Ali Shah Qajar’.
Object details
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| Brief description | Plate, earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze red and blue and gilt, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, England, ca. 1810 |
| Physical description | Plate of earthenware. White body, pearl ware glaze. Transfer-printed in underglaze blue and red in the 'Japan' pattern. The decoration is highlighted with gilding, the rim is gilt with inscriptions painted gilt within a gilt cartouche. The inscription at the top says: ‘al-sultan ibn al-sultan’, ie ‘The Sultan, son of the Sultan', the inscription at the bottom says: ‘Fath Ali Shah Qajar’. |
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| Credit line | Presented by A.N. Cumberbatch Esq CMG CBE, November 1982 |
| Object history | The bowl is part of a service given to Fath 'Ali Shah, ruler of Iran from 1797 to 1834, by the East India Company in 1810. It was later given to the museum by Arthur Noel Cumberbatch in 1982. Cumberbatch served as Commercial Secretary at the British Embassy in Tehran in the late-1930s and early-1940s. |
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| Accession number | C.32-1984 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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