After an interval of almost three hundred years, Iranian potters of the seventeenth century revived the technique of luster glazing for use on a limited range of vessel types. Pear-shaped wine bottles such as this example were an especially popular form and were also produced in glass and metal and depicted in paintings during this period. Unlike contemporaneous blue-and-white wares, whose decoration is based on Chinese prototypes, Safavid lusterware is typically decorated with lush foliage, floral blossoms, and scrolling vines, similar to the marginal illuminations of seventeenth-century manuscripts.

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