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  • Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration (oblique)
  • Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration (oblique)
  • Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration (oblique)
  • Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration (side)
  • Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration (side)
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Dish with seated figures and epigraphic decoration

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    Associated place
    Iran (place of creation)
    Kashan (probable place of creation)
    Date
    early 13th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    12 cm (height)
    49.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    fritware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    glazed,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    more
    Object type index
    dish
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.88

  • Further reading

    Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 101 on p. 92, pls 44 a & b

    Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), pp. 12 & 32-34, illus. p. 32 pl. 27

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fritware, lustre

Location

    • currently in research collection

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