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BOTTLE
Late 19th - early 20th century
h: 28.1 cm.; d: 16.8 cm.
 

Cream paste, white slip and transparent, colourless glaze. The bottle has a pedestal foot, gourd shaped body and tall flaring neck with a rim moulding and mouldings at the center and round the shoulder. It is decorated under glaze in light and dark cobalt blue, turquoise, light green, pale manganese purple and brownish red, with black outlines. The ground is covered with a scale pattern. On the center of the body is circular medallion containing an inscription which reads "Souvenir of Kütahya", flanked by large hatayi flowers inside lobed medallions. There are isolated rosettes on the body and neck and spiral and bead bands around the center of the neck.

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