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  • Dish with trailed decoration (side)
  • Dish with trailed decoration (bottom)
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Dish with trailed decoration

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iraq (place of creation)
    Date
    10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
    Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and trailed decoration in green
    Dimensions
    3.5 cm (height)
    21.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › dish
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1763

  • 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. 285 on p. 103, illus. p. 103

Glossary (2)

earthenware, glaze

  • 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.

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

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    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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