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Bowl with marbled decoration

  • Details

    Associated place
    Africa Egypt (place of creation)
    Date
    15th century (1401 - 1500)
    Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with white underglaze marbled decoration
    Dimensions
    7.6 cm (height)
    17.9 cm (diameter)
    at foot 7.5 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2135
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 358 on p. 124, illus. p. 124

Glossary

earthenware

  • earthenware

    Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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