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Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery

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Fragmentary dish with figure of a musicianfront

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  • Fragmentary dish with figure of a musician (back)
  • Fragmentary dish with figure of a musician (detail, inside)
  • Fragmentary dish with figure of a musician (detail, bottom)
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  • Details

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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 painting in lustre over an opaque white glaze
    Dimensions
    3.4 cm (height)
    37 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › dish
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2146

  • Further reading

    Raby, Julian, ‘Looking for Silver in Clay: A New Perspective on Samanid Ceramics’, M. Vickers, ed., Pots and Pans: A Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese and Graeco-Roman Worlds, Oxford 1985, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 181-182, illus. p. 187 fig. 9

Glossary (3)

earthenware, glaze, lustre

  • 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.

  • lustre

    Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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