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ink-pot(?)

Object Type
Museum number: G.440
Description: Sand-shaker with moulded globular body with indentations, raised shoulded, flaring neck damaged and cut down, ring foot, unglazed base. Stonepaste fabric, white slip, yellow underglaze, transparent colourless glaze, lustre overglaze.Decorated with band of hexagons on sides bordered by lustre and yellow containing arabesque in a hexagon alternating with lustre and yellow teardrop shape within hexagon. Below shoulder band of yellow and lustre horizontal chevrons, On shoulder single tulips separated by vertical bands of chevrons. Hatching on neck. Interior of neck glazed but not lustred.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 17thC
Production place: Made in: Iran
Materials: ceramic; stonepaste
Technique: glazed; mould-made; lustred; slipped; underglazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 6.20 centimetres (base); Height: 10.50 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.440