(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.