IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74699 accession number: C.37-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made, painted under the glaze with black outlines highlighted with blue under a cracked colourless glaze Shape: pear shaped body with rolled rim and four strap handles applied to the neck and another six to the body. Sits on a low foot ring. Exterior: on two opposing handles attached to the neck, a pattern of black chevrons reserved in blue. Decoration on the body is outlined in black and highlighted with blue. Under the rim and on the lower neck a frieze of triangles and rounded leaves, while on the upper body a diaper pattern interspersed with spikey leaves. On the body a frieze of elaborate lappets containing tight scrolls with pendant bracketed half medallions and stylised lotus blossoms. On the lower body a stylised rock wave pattern. Glaze runs unevenly over the lower body leaving small areas uncovered and accumulating in droplets around the base, only the rim of the foot ring is left unglazed. Interior: glazed but otherwise undecorated object type: fritware painted in black and blue under a colourless glaze title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, part of lot 131, sold with another object (C.36-1911) for 11 guineas LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74699 TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, painted under the glaze with black outlines highlighted with blue under a cracked colourless glaze moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1675 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1675 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Safavid (1501-1738) culture: 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 1489 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.6 CITATIONS -------- The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq. Persia and China. 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