Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1650
Publication Place
Iran (made) -
Subject
Flowers
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 20.3cm, Diameter: 16.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
985-1883
Record ID
985-1883
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1650
Notes
The designs on Safavid lustreware are purely Iranian, and owe nothing to Chinese designs, so prevalent in underglaze blue painted wares. Potters revived a three-hundred year old Iranian decorative technique in the second half of the Seventeenth century. However, the sources for the designs are found in contemporary manuscript illuminations, some dated about 1675. A kalian is a tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. They are also known as a hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan, qaliyan, narghile, shisha, and a hubble-bubble.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration Fritware Lustre Glazed
Fiziksel açıklama
Kalian or waterpipe base, fritware, cobalt blue ground, glazed and overglaze painted with metallic ruby lustre with plant forms and split-palmette bands.
Üslup
Safavid
