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Title	Bottle
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1650
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Deer Cranes (Birds) Long Guns
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Height: 25.7cm, Width: 21.3cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	2499-1876
Record ID	2499-1876
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1650
Notes	In 19th century Qajar Iran, before a contemporary export market had emerged, a commercial market for historical artefacts arose, fuelled by Western collectors and museums. Historically, fragmentary material culture, particularly ceramics, including 17th century Safavid fritware, and Chinese porcelain, which had been damaged through use, was often repaired or re-purposed with metal mounts, frequently brass, to replace missing spouts, handles, lids and necks. Many examples were acquired for the Victoria and Albert Museum by Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith (1835-1900) in Iran in the 1870s and 1880s. Among these is a large corpus embellished with a minutely engraved repertoire of figures from 19th century Iranian visual culture: youthful Qajar princes, veiled women, dervishes, acrobats, as well as monstrous supernatural beings, known as divs, and a range of bizarre humanoid creatures. These mounted vessels of Safavid fritware are therefore couched in a Qajar environment and re-fitted according to contemporary taste.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Fritware, underglaze painted in blue and black; brass, engraved Fritware Painted
Fiziksel açıklama	Bottle, painted in reserve against blue with black outlining, depicting a hunter aiming a gun at wild animals, in a leafy landscape. Similar designs are used on three other bottles in the collection (1125-1876, 2500-1876, 610-1889). The decorated brass neck is a later replacement, added in Qajar Iran, ca.1800-1875.
Üslup	Safavid

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Bottle

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1650

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Deer Cranes (Birds) Long Guns

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Height: 25.7cm, Width: 21.3cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 2499-1876

Record ID 2499-1876

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1650

Notes In 19th century Qajar Iran, before a contemporary export market had emerged, a commercial market for historical artefacts arose, fuelled by Western collectors and museums. Historically, fragmentary material culture, particularly ceramics, including 17th century Safavid fritware, and Chinese porcelain, which had been damaged through use, was often repaired or re-purposed with metal mounts, frequently brass, to replace missing spouts, handles, lids and necks. Many examples were acquired for the Victoria and Albert Museum by Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith (1835-1900) in Iran in the 1870s and 1880s. Among these is a large corpus embellished with a minutely engraved repertoire of figures from 19th century Iranian visual culture: youthful Qajar princes, veiled women, dervishes, acrobats, as well as monstrous supernatural beings, known as divs, and a range of bizarre humanoid creatures. These mounted vessels of Safavid fritware are therefore couched in a Qajar environment and re-fitted according to contemporary taste.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Fritware, underglaze painted in blue and black; brass, engraved Fritware Painted

Fiziksel açıklama Bottle, painted in reserve against blue with black outlining, depicting a hunter aiming a gun at wild animals, in a leafy landscape. Similar designs are used on three other bottles in the collection (1125-1876, 2500-1876, 610-1889). The decorated brass neck is a later replacement, added in Qajar Iran, ca.1800-1875.

Üslup Safavid