Vase

DATE:: c. 1720
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE:: Porcelain
CLASSIFICATION:: Containers
DIMENSIONS:: 9 × 7 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (22.86 × 19.69 × 17.15 cm)
DEPARTMENT:: Decorative Arts and Design
LOCATION:: Wendy and Emery Reves Collection - Porcelain , Level 3
CREDIT LINE:: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection
COPYRIGHT:: Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art
OBJECT NUMBER:: 1985.R.909

General Description

Although its unusual shape is probably copied from Middle Eastern water pipes, or kendi, and they are sometimes described as nursing bottles, colorful porcelains, like this one, may have been bought by Europeans merely as decorative objects.

Adapted from

Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985), 193.
Label text, Reves Galleries, Porcelain Gallery, 2018