Small Multi-Necked Vase | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.50.113
Title: Small Multi-Necked Vase
Classification: Lighting Devices
Work Type: lighting device
Date: 20th century
Places: Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/147859

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Pinkish fritware, pierced, under turquoise (copper) transparent alkali glaze with black overpaint
Dimensions: 14.8 cm (5 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Hadji Baba Rabbi House of Antiquities, Teheran, 1970], sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood, Belmont, MA (1970-2002), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: 2002.50.113
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Three miniature vases are attached to the pear-shaped body of this wide-mouthed vessel. The primary neck is elaborated by a band of triangular cutouts, which are filled with the turquoise glaze that covers the body of the vase and ends in thick drips just above the foot ring. Several aspects of the vase are atypical: it is unusually small, the mouths of the smaller vases are filled with glaze, and the ceramic fabric is uncommonly soft for fritware.

Published Catalogue Text: In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art , written 2013
137

Small multi-necked vase
Probably Iran, 20th century[1]
Pinkish fritware, pierced, under turquoise (copper) transparent alkali glaze with black overpaint
14.8 × 10.5 cm (5 13/16 × 4 1/4 in.)
2002.50.113

Three miniature vases are attached to the pear-shaped body of this wide-mouthed vessel. The primary neck is elaborated by a band of triangular cutouts, which are filled with the turquoise glaze that covers the body of the vase and ends in thick drips just above the foot ring. Several aspects of the vase are atypical: it is unusually small, the mouths of the smaller vases are filled with glaze, and the ceramic fabric is uncommonly soft for fritware.[2]

Mary McWilliams

[1] The vase was last fired within the past 100 years, according to the results of thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Oxford Authentication Ltd. in 2011.
[2] See, for example, larger examples of this type in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (48.1278), and in the Khalili Collection, London (POT525): Grube 1994, 184–85, cat. 191.

Publication History

Mary McWilliams, ed., In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2013), p. 266, cat. 137, ill.

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2002.50.113: Small Multi-Necked Vase