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  • Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern (oblique)
  • Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern (oblique)
  • Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern (oblique)
  • Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern (side)
  • Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern (bottom)
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Bowl with fish around a central geometric pattern

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Syria (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 12th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    7.2 cm (height)
    20 cm (diameter)
    at foot 8.3 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2289

  • 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. 359 on p. 124, illus. p. 124

    Porter, Venetia, and Oliver Watson, ‘'Tell Minis' Ware’, James Allan and Caroline Roberts, eds, Syria and Iran: Three Studies in Medieval Ceramics, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 1987), 4, no. A21 on p. 209, pp. 183 & 184, illus. p. 226 fig. A21

    Porter, Venetia, Medieval Syrian Pottery (Raqqa Ware) (Oxford: Asmolean Museum, 1981), illus. p. 5 pl. II

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

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