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ink-pot(?)

Object Type
Museum number: G.445
Description: Sand-shaker. Globular body with stepped shoulder, neck broken and mended with band of metal, slightly concave disk foot, unglazed. Stonepaste fabric, white slip, transparent colourless glaze, cobalt blue underglaze details, lustre overglaze. Decorated with two blue streams and pair of recumbent deer, lustre painted flowers and leaves on long undulating stalks, band of lustre on shoulder, chain band, blue band near neck with band of lustre stylised leaves. Base unglazed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 17thC
Production place: Made in: Iran
Materials: pottery; metal
Technique: glazed; lustred; underglazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 3 centimetres (rim); Height: 11.60 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
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.445