Author
Unknown
Publication Date
1600
Publication Place
Iran (made) -
Subject
Flowers Bees (Insects)
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Height: 21.2cm, Maximum including spout width: 18.9cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
C.1958-1910
Record ID
C.1958-1910
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
1600
Notes
This vessel was used as a container for water, to cool the smoke of a water pipe or hookah before the smoker inhaled. Its shape is derived from a type of South East Asian drinking vessel called a kendi . Chinese kendis were exported to the Middle East, where they were used as hookah bases, and Iranian potters then copied and adapted the shape to make vessels like this one.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Fritware painted with cobalt and manganese oxide under the glaze Fritware
Fiziksel açıklama
Vessel in the form of a kendi, with rounded body, flaring neck coming to a narrow opening, and domed 'spout' on one side. Painted in 2 blues and black. A scroll of leaves and four petal flowers run round the flattened rim and its underside. The four panels of the neck are filled with leaves. Seven linked lappets and a band of scrolling flowers and leaves cover the shoulder. On the body three leafy sprays together with bees link three vases with roots and a flower spray. At intervals the painter has used guiding dots to space his composition.
Üslup
Safavid
