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Spouted bowl

Title	Spouted bowl
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1650
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Ceramics
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	932-1876
Record ID	932-1876
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.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration Fritware
Fiziksel açıklama	Bowl of compressed globular form with straight collar, with three small handles on the shoulder and a tubular spout, cobalt blue ground with overglaze ruby-coloured lustre decoration of foliate scrolls and diagonal lancet leaves.Probably missing a cover.
Üslup	Safavid

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Spouted bowl

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1650

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Ceramics

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 932-1876

Record ID 932-1876

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.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration Fritware

Fiziksel açıklama Bowl of compressed globular form with straight collar, with three small handles on the shoulder and a tubular spout, cobalt blue ground with overglaze ruby-coloured lustre decoration of foliate scrolls and diagonal lancet leaves.Probably missing a cover.

Üslup Safavid