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Bottle with polychrome floral decoration
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Details
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- Date
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17th century (1601 - 1700)
Safavid Period (1501 - 1722)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with underglaze painting in coloured slips and blue
- Dimensions
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35 x 21 x 11 cm max. (height x width x depth)
at foot 12 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1709
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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. 352 on p. 122, illus. p. 122
Golombek, Lisa, ‘The Safavid Ceramic Industry at Kirman’, Iran, 41, (2003), pp. 254-255, 262, & 266, illus. p. 256 fig. 2
Mason, Robert B., and Lisa Golombek, ‘The Petrography of Iranian Safavid Ceramics’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 30/2, (2003), pp. 258 & 261, illus. p. 257 fig. 5
Glossary (2)
fritware, underglaze painting
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fritware
Ceramic material composed of ground quartz and small quantities of clay and finely ground frit (frit is obtained by pouring molten glass into water).
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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
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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