A Multan pottery water bottle (surahi) North India, 19th Century of compressed globular form with long flaring neck flanked by two simple handles on a short foot, decorated underglaze in cobalt-blue and turquoise on a white ground, the body with floral interlace, the neck with floral sprays, the handles with chevron motifs 28 cm. high Footnotes: For a similar bottle signed by the maker, Kadmil bin Mohammad Yusuf of Hala, in the Sindh Provincial Museum, Hyderabad, see Abdul Hamid Akhund and Nasreen Askari, Tale of the Tile, The Ceramic Traditions of Pakistan, Karachi, 2011, p. 303, Fig. 80. Kadmil bin Mohammad Yusuf exhibited his wares at the Great Exhibition of the Arts of India in London in 1871. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com