Object Number: N8699

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: flask

Description: Round, flat bellied flask with short cylindrical neck with slight everted rim, circular, slightly convex depression in centre of each face. Painted in underglaze blue and onglaze, red, green, black: in centre of both faces, a moulded and over-painted shield below a crown with human supporters, within a surround of black-painted relief dots (moulding sharper on one face than on the other); on sides, broad meander of black scrolling stems with red flowers and green and black leaves. Neck painted blue.