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

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

Browse: 10610 objects

Bowl with radial panelsoblique

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

  • Bowl with radial panels (oblique)
  • Bowl with radial panels (side)
  • Bowl with radial panels (top)
  • Bowl with radial panels (bottom)
Reference URL
?

Actions

Send e-mail

Contact us about this object

Send e-mail

Send to a friend

Bowl with radial panels

  • Description

    By the late 11th century, the secrets of lustre-painting - a ceramic decorative technique that uses metallic oxides fired at a reduced atmosphere - were transferred from Egypt to Syria by craftsmen migrating in search of new job opportunities. Around the same time, a newly-invented ceramic body known as fritware, or stonepaste, was also adopted in the region, revolutionizing the local ceramic production. This bowl has a fritware body and is decorated with lustre, and can be attributed to Syria on the basis of its bold decorative motifs and the reddish-brownish hue of its lustre.

  • Details

    show all
    Associated place
    Asia › Syria (place of creation)
    Date
    1st half of the 13th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    8.3 cm (height)
    18.1 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.103

  • Further reading

    Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 150 on p. 113, pl. 61 a

Glossary (2)

fritware, lustre

  • 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).

  • 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

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.

 

Galleries

© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum