Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1625
Publication Place
Iran -
Subject
Arabesque Star Palmette
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 17.1cm, Diameter: 15.9cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
1012-1905
Record ID
1012-1905
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1625
Notes
This ceramic vessel is a âkalianâ or base for a water-pipe used in the newly introduced practice of smoking tobacco. It held the water through which the smoke was drawn in order to cool it using a long flexible tube connected to a container through two holes. They are also known as a hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan, qaliyan, narghile, shisha, and a hubble-bubble.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware, slip-painted, glazed Fritware Slip Glaze Glazed Painted Pierced
Fiziksel açıklama
Kalian or base for a water pipe (hookah) of fritware, of ovoid shape, and pierced with a hole on the top and another smaller on the upper shoulder, and covered in rust-coloured wash and painted in white slip, and centered around the upper orifice with a six-pointed star terminating in shield-shaped palmettes filled in with arabesques, and covered in a thin clear matte glaze, possibly misfired.
Üslup
Safavid
