PC-164

(PC-164)

• Region: Likely Shiraz, Persia.
• Estimated Date of Production: Estimated Date of Production: 1750 – 1800.
• Dimensions: 230 mm in height, 182 mm x 88 mm circumference.
• Weight: 861 grams.
• Colour: Blue-green.
• Technique:

  Lightly v-tooled lip, 1 3/4 turns of applied stringing, combination pontil (open pontil with bare iron scar in the middle). Seed bubbles throughout and vertical stress lines.

• Description:

  Expanded mouth late Persian Saddle Flask.

• Built By:
• Provenance: Purchased in 2014 from an American in California who had lived in Isfahan in the 1970s.
• Condition:
• Literature: None.
• Related Works outside of this collection:

  One example of a wide-mouth Saddle Flask in an American collection as of 2014.