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Kalian

Title	Kalian
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1650
Publication Place	Iran (made) -
Subject	Flowers
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Height: 15.6cm, Diameter: 13.9cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	537-1878
Record ID	537-1878
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. This ceramic vessel is the base of water-pipe for smoking tobacco, known as a "kalian". The fashion for smoking tobacco in Iran became fashionable in the 17th century. This base contained water and was fitted with two long metal pipes, one to a cup holding burning tobacco and the other a mouthpiece; the smoke from the tobacco was drawn through the water to cool it. These are also known as hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan qaliyan, narghile, shisha and hubble-bubble.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration Fritware Glazed Lustre
Fiziksel açıklama	Kalian or water-pipe base, fritware, cobalt blue ground, glazed, and overglaze painted in metallic ruby lustre with flowers and palmette bands
Üslup	Safavid

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Kalian

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1650

Publication Place Iran (made) -

Subject Flowers

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Height: 15.6cm, Diameter: 13.9cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 537-1878

Record ID 537-1878

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. This ceramic vessel is the base of water-pipe for smoking tobacco, known as a "kalian". The fashion for smoking tobacco in Iran became fashionable in the 17th century. This base contained water and was fitted with two long metal pipes, one to a cup holding burning tobacco and the other a mouthpiece; the smoke from the tobacco was drawn through the water to cool it. These are also known as hookah, huqqa, qalian, qalyan qaliyan, narghile, shisha and hubble-bubble.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Fritware, underglaze and lustre decoration Fritware Glazed Lustre

Fiziksel açıklama Kalian or water-pipe base, fritware, cobalt blue ground, glazed, and overglaze painted in metallic ruby lustre with flowers and palmette bands

Üslup Safavid