Rosewater Flask

1st half of the 18th century (Ottoman)

8.5 cm 16.8 cm

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Rosewater, a concentrated liquid made from rose blooms and used for many purposes, was kept in flasks like this one.The town of Kütahya where this flask was made was a center of ceramic production in the Ottoman Empire. There the ceramic industry was dependent on the Armenian...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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