拍品 288
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A RARE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POURING VESSEL for a bath, the rounded body with vertical rim rising from a spreading foot, extruded at one side into a long slightly curved gradually tapering spout, the white ground painted with floral sprays and flying birds, stylised bridges below and scrolling arabesques above, the spout with similar floral sprays, the underside with a square potter's mark, 17th century (rim chips, otherwise intact)

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A RARE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POURING VESSEL for a bath, the rounded body with vertical rim rising from a spreading foot, extruded at one side into a long slightly curved gradually tapering spout, the white ground painted with floral sprays and flying birds, stylised bridges below and scrolling arabesques above, the spout with similar floral sprays, the underside with a square potter's mark, 17th century (rim chips, otherwise intact)
11½in. (29.3cm.) long including spout

拍品专文

While there appear to be no other published examples of this combination of form and decoration, a contemporary plain turquoise glazed example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, inv.no.550-1888 (Lane, A.: Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1957, pl.92B). The form has many earlier bronze prototypes and is thought to have been used for pouring water in the hammam (cf. Baer, E.: Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York, 1983, pls. 96 and 97 amongst many others)