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On display at V&A South Kensington
Islamic Middle East, Room 42, The Jameel Gallery

Dish

1640-1680 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Iran (made)

Potters working in Iran during the rule of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722) created striking ceramics using coloured slips, or liquid clay, under the glaze. This dish has a delicate floral design in white slip, with accents of blue glaze, over a ground of beige slip.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Fritware, underglaze painted in white slip and blue cobalt
Fritware
Slip
Brief description
Dish, fritware, covered with a celadon slip wash and painted in white slip with a central cyprus tree flanked by scrolling foliage, heightened with blue cobalt dots, the rim with a line band in blue cobalt; Iran, 1640-1680.
Physical description
Dish, fritware, covered with a celadon slip wash and painted in white slip with a central cyprus tree flanked by scrolling foliage, heightened with blue cobalt dots, the rim with a line band in blue cobalt
Style
Safavid
Gallery label
  • Jameel Gallery Safavid Ceramics and Colour Safavid potters created brilliantly coloured ceramics. The effect was often achieved with glazes of a single colour. Many of these wares have moulded or carved decoration. The most unusual appears on bottles made in the 17th century, which bear scenes of people and animals. A second technique used coloured slips, or liquid clay, under the glaze. Potters sometimes carved the slip away to reveal the white body beneath. In other cases, they added designs in white and other slips. 20-21 Bottle and Dish Iran, probably Kirman 1600-1700 Fritware under slip, with slip decoration, and silver mount (20) Museum nos. 375-1898; C.1972-1910, Bequest of George Salting(2006)
  • DISH. Earthenware painted with coloured slips on celadon ground. PERSIAN; 17th century. Salting Bequest. C.1972-1910(1954-)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
probably Kirman
Subject depicted
Flowers (Plants)
Summary
Potters working in Iran during the rule of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722) created striking ceramics using coloured slips, or liquid clay, under the glaze. This dish has a delicate floral design in white slip, with accents of blue glaze, over a ground of beige slip.
Bibliographic reference
Wallis, Henry Illustrated catalogue of specimens of Persian and Arab art : exhibited in 1885, London : Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1885 No.57, plate 1.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1972-1910

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Record createdMay 16, 2008
Record URL
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