Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery
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Bowl with epigraphic decoration
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Details
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- Date
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9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and painting in blue
- Dimensions
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5.8 cm (height)
20.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.2138
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Further reading
Tamari, Vera, ‘Abbasid Blue-on-white Ware’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, pp. 125, 133, & 135, illus. pp. 120-121 figs 7a-b
Glossary (2)
earthenware, glaze
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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.
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
Location
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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