flask
- Museum number
- G.382
- Description
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Flask, made of stonepastey, white slip, cobalt blue glaze, lustre overglaze. Long necked fluted globular body. Ring foot, three spur marks, glazed base with indentation at centre. Alternating blue and white glazed panels each with trees and flowers most with birds either alone or in pairs. Band of interlacing arabesque above foot, band of cobalt blue at rim. Rim reinforced with metal.
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.50 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 3 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 31 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Labels on base; Richard collection 1889, 1931 London Exhibition of Persian Art, City of Manchester Art Gallery.
- Location
- On display (G43/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1931 Jan-Feb, London, Royal Academy, 'Persian Art' (when in private collection)
Exhibition: City of Manchester Art Gallery, n.d.
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- G.382
