{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1667385"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1667385/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NH7099/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NH7099/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2023NH7099","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2023NH7100","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2023NH7101","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1667385","accessionNumber":"ME.6-2022","objectType":"Vase","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"Alisher Rakhimov: Tashkent ceramics\r\n\r\nMaster Ceramist Alisher Rakhimov was born into a family with a long lineage of ceramic masters in Tashkent, an ancient centre of ceramic production. He studied ceramics within the family tradition from an early age and then at the Republican Art College in Tashkent. He has exhibited in Japan, Germany, the USA and Israel, and been part of various UNESCO projects to revive ceramic technologies of the past.\r\n\r\nIn 2004 he was the author of five documentary films for UNESCO entitled Ceramicists of Uzbekistan and in 2006 he edited the new English edition of the books by his father Mukhitdin Rakhimov (1903-1985), Artistic Ceramics of Uzbekistan and Architectural Ceramics of Uzbekistan. In 2012 he received the title of 'Honoured Art Worker of Uzbekistan'. His studio in Tashkent has held several exhibitions including Traditions and New Approaches to Ceramic Tiles in 2014, Ceramics without borders in 2015, and Continuous Flight in 2016. His work is in the collection at the Museum of Applied Art in Tashkent.\r\n\r\nLabel information from exhibition: “The Road to Discovery: Ceramics from Uzbekistan”, University of Aberystwyth, 22 June-26 August 2019"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2023NH7099","2023NH7100","2023NH7101"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"137","id":"THES49876"},"free":"","case":"24","shelf":"6","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":"AAT132254"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"26","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"17","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Alisher Rakhimov, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2019. 'Dancing birds', decorative vase updating traditional Uzbek ceramic techniques. Inspired by the nature of Bukhara, earth and colour of the sky; the bird symbolises happiness and wealth. Engraving and brush painting covered with transparent glaze. ","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["ME.6-2022"],"accessionNumberNum":"6","accessionNumberPrefix":"ME","accessionYear":2022,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2021-09-28","availableToBook":false}}