Another "is this delfts" thread

6" tall - dare I ask? Possibly delfts? If not - where from? And - what's it for? Sprinkler of some sort? I promise not to make any more delfts threads for a good long time

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Vinegar bottle?

 

Mexican?

 

Apart from being mainly blue & white, it does not really look like Delft. Mexican is a reasonable line of inquiry.

You would need a funnel with a very small neck to fill this with anything. Odd. But we do odd here.

 

I was also thinking maybe italy...but what's it for? Being so hard to fill I wouldn't think it's for vinegar? The hole is even smaller than it looks in the pictures, as the picture looks a little larger than real life.

 

It's the small hole that suggests it's for dispensing something you do not want to have come out too fast or too copiously. Hole does not look scuffed, but possible this had a metal spout to control flow even more. Not a vase & not just an objet d'art; doesn't leave many other possibilities.

 

How do you get the stuff you don't want to come out too fast actually in there in the first place?

 

I have a piece (milk warming pan) with very similar design style and it's marked on the base as "Talavera" pottery. I like your item a lot, it's a nice and tasteful example imo

Here's an example

 

Rose water sprinkler?

 

Agreed SIS - a sprinkler. The only one I found with that bulb on the top was a 19th century Iranian design.

 

Agree.
It could be from Iznik, Turkey.
Here is an Iranian one with an even more bulbous top than the one Bev showed:


Blue and white ceramics are originally Middle Eastern. The style was introduced to China by Persian traders (Silk Road). The Chinese imported cobalt from Iran to re-create Islamic pottery styles in porcelain. The Dutch didn't have kaolin earth, so no porcelain, they copied Chinese styles in pottery, in Delft and other places.
Mexican Talavera was started potters from Talavera, Spain. It is based on Spanish Talavera ware, which was originally Moorish pottery, which again was a geographic and stylisic extension of pottery from the Middle East.