Title : flask

Artist : Unknown

Date : 1590-1640 (if Chinese)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Three-sided porcelain flask with underglaze blue decoration. This unique flask is of triangular cross-section with rounded edges, a barrel-shaped neck which bulges in the middle and a three-sided spreading foot. Along each of the three vertical edges are at the shoulder a loop, towards the bottom of the flask a tubular attachment and in the foot a hole. It is painted under the glaze in blue cobalt with figures in double oval frames and with ornate medallions containing archaic-style characters.

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