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SADDLE FLASK (Type III) (PC-164) Region From: Likely Shiraz, Persia. 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. Provenance: Purchased in 2014 from an American in California who had lived in Isfahan in the 1970s. Literature: n/a Related Works outside this collection: One example of a wide-mouth Saddle Flask in an American collection as of 2014. |
