Bottle with Flying Cranes

Unknown

1650s · Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze · Islamic Art

Ceramics produced in Kirman in the early seventeenth century consist primarily of stonepaste imitations of Chinese blue-and-white porcelains, decorated with cobalt in an underglaze technique. By the 1640s, a new style had developed in which elements loosely based on Chinese floral motifs were combined with locally developed devices, such as polychrome vegetal forms and medallions. Chinese in shape, this bottle could have been used as a rosewater sprinkler or decanter.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1650s

Medium

Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1914