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The central decoration features an almost complete vase with roots which holds a cluster of leaves from which emerges an impressive flower spray which bends to the rights to encircle two birds in flight. These features illustrate the originality of Persian decoration.","physicalDescription":"Large ceramic dish painted in two blues. The decoration consists of eight S-stems on the flange, central floret and leaves, surrounding a plain gadrooned well. An eight-bracket <i>Kraak</i> frame encloses the centre. To the left an almost complete vase with roots holds a cluster of leaves from which emerges an impressive flower spray which bends to the right to encircle two birds in flight. A lower mound with tufts of grass blades completes the scene. The large flowers and flaming leaves are at times surrounded by small dots. Four S-stems with a central lotus leaf and smaller leaves decorate the outside. There are three tassel marks.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"stonepaste","id":"x36411"},{"text":"overglaze","id":"AAT252619"},{"text":"paint","id":"AAT15029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"firing","id":"AAT53887"},{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"},{"text":"incising","id":"AAT53847"},{"text":"overglazing","id":"AAT53918"},{"text":"moulded","id":"x30076"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"stonepaste body overglazed, moulded and painted","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Safavid","id":"AAT21712"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AF7259"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"BMIA (LOAN)","id":"THES49172"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1642-1666","earliest":"1637-01-01","latest":"1666-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"483-1878","id":"O199529"},"association":"Design"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"6.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"44","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"25","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"at base","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Three tassels","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"paint","method":"painted","position":"On bottom","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"1) Decoration 2) Makers's mark","note":"1) Decoration 2) Makers's mark; On bottom; painted; paint"}],"objectHistory":"Historical significance: In the Safavid period moulded patterns in the undecorated white part of dishes in the <i>Kraak</i> style, exemplified by this dish, began to appear.","historicalContext":"Large decorated blue and white dishes formed a large part of Persian production for the European export market. In the Safavid period moulded patterns appear on the undecorated white part of dishes in the <i>Kraak</i> style. Because of the awkward consistency of a Persian stonepaste body most dishes would have had to be made with the use of a mould. Patterns were then carved inside the mould.These patterns adapted freehand to suit Persian taste either decorate the well of a dish or more often both well and flange. Painting in the centre uses <i>Kraak</i> themes such as fantastic animals and birds, vases, lake scenes and figures in bucolic contexts.","briefDescription":"Large ceramic dish decorated with a vase and flower spray in the <i>Kraak</i> style","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Y.Crowe, Persia and China, Safavid blue and white ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1501-1738, Thames & Hudson, 2002, 51"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"vase","id":"AAT132254"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"birds","id":"x35043"},{"text":"lotus","id":"AAT165258"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["1154-1876"],"accessionNumberNum":"1154","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1876,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2003-05-22","availableToBook":false}}