ink-pot (?) | British Museum

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ink-pot(?)

Object Type
Museum number: G.341
Description: Sand-shaker. Stonepaste body, white slip, transparent colourless glaze, underglaze yellow, lustre overglaze.Slightly flattened globular body with pronounced shoulder, flaring rim, ring foot, glazed base. Decorated on sides with large five or six petalled flowers and leaves with striations. Row of hatched leaves on shoulder. Band of horizontal chevrons below rim. Band of hatched petals on interior of rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 17thC(late)
Production place: Made in: Iran
Materials: ceramic; stonepaste
Technique: painted; lustred; glazed; slipped; underglazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 8.50 centimetres (base); Diameter: 7 centimetres (rim); Height: 12.30 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Frederick Du Cane Godman; Previous owner/ex-collection: Julius Richard (1889)
Acquisition date: 1983
Department: Middle East
Registration number: G.341