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Bottle with Flying Cranes

1650s
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 462
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bottle with Flying Cranes
  • Date: 1650s
  • Geography: Made in Iran, Kirman
  • Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)
    Diam. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1914
  • Object Number: 14.64.2
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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