- Title
- Wine Bottle
- Date Made
- second half of 17th century
- Medium
- Fritware, overglaze luster-painted
- Dimensions
- 8 7/16 x 5 1/16 in. (21.4 x 12.9 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.196
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
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.
