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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

ca. 1650-1680 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The decoration of the back of this dish, the second largest in the collection, with its fine scrolling branches incorprorating star-shaped leaves is similar to another dish in the collection dated AH 1077/ 1666 AD (931-1886).


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Dish, fritware, large, painted in underglaze blue after a Chinese Kraak ware original; Iran, 1650-1680.
Physical description
Dish of fritware, painted in underglaze blue in imitation of Chinese landscape. Mark in cursive script in blue, repeated four times on the base. The flange band encloses a busy sequence of a double flowering branch, two dividing birds by a flowering bush, two sketchy pheasants, an expanse of leafy flowers emerging from the ground and an island with round rocks and huts. An eleven-bracketed Kraak frame surrounds the central jumbled composition. A central bamboo is hemmed in on the left by a crazy three-tier vase filled with strange branches and flowers. On the right two white birds stand on a mound. Below them are two pheasants. Unusual clouds and various fillers crowd the upper part. Four S-stems with a central shaded leaf and smaller sketchy leaves decorate the outside with pairs of crossed leaves as dividers.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 52.4cm
Style
Production
Y.Crowe, cat. no. 275
Subject depicted
Summary
The decoration of the back of this dish, the second largest in the collection, with its fine scrolling branches incorprorating star-shaped leaves is similar to another dish in the collection dated AH 1077/ 1666 AD (931-1886).
Bibliographic reference
Crowe, Yolande. Persia and China: Safavid blue and white ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum 1501-1738. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002, Cat. 275, p. 177.
Collection
Accession number
629-1878

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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