Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Ashmolean − Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery

Explore artefacts made over a period of more than 1000 years in the heart of the Islamic world.

Islamic Middle East gallery

Galleries : 258 objects

Ewer with winged creaturesside

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

  • Ewer with winged creatures (side)
  • Ewer with winged creatures (side)
  • Ewer with winged creatures (side)
  • Ewer with winged creatures (bottom)
Reference URL
?

Actions

Send e-mail

Contact us about this object

Send e-mail

Send to a friend

Ewer with winged creatures

  • Description

    Unglazed wares account for the majority of the ceramics produced in the Islamic world, although they remain largely understudied. The Ashmolean Museum owns several unglazed ceramics, and these help to provide an overview of the range of techniques used to produce and decorate ceramics of this type. This jug has a thrown body and a hand-shaped handle and rim, and is decorated with incised, stamped, and applied motifs including stylized winged creatures.

  • Details

    show all
    Associated place
    Asia › Syria (possible place of creation)
    Asia › Iraq (possible place of creation)
    Date
    8th - 9th century AD (AD 701 - 900)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, thrown, unglazed, with hand-modelled rim and handle, and incised, stamped, and applied decoration
    Dimensions
    36 cm (height)
    19 cm max. (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware
    Technique index
    thrown,
    formed › modelled,
    decorated › incised,
    marked › incised,
    decorated › stamped,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › ewer
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2240

  • Further reading

    Watson, Oliver, Ceramics from Islamic Lands (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004)

    Reitlinger, Gerald, ‘Unglazed Relief Pottery from Northern Mesopotamia’, Ars Islamica, 15-16, (1951), p. 22, illus. p. 16 fig. 24

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

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.

 

Collection trails

Galleries

Notice

Objects may have since been removed or replaced from a gallery. Click into an individual object record to confirm whether or not an object is currently on display. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis, so contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular Eastern Art object.

© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum