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

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Associated place

Asia › Iran (place of creation)

Date

late 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)

Material and technique

fritware, covered in grey slip with underglaze painting in white slip and black

Dimensions

9.5 cm (height)
20.8 cm (diameter)
at foot 6.5 cm (diameter)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

Technique index

covered › coated › slipped,

slipped,

decorated › painted,

painted,

covered › coated › painted,

marked › painted,

covered › coated › glazed,

glazed

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Object type index

container › vessel › bowl

No. of items

1

Credit line

Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.1637
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. 316 on p. 112, illus. p. 112

London: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976, The Arts of Islam, Dalu Jones and George Michell, eds (London: Arts Council of Great Britian, 1976), no. 365 on p. 250

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 181 on p. 65, illus. p. 65

Morgan, Peter, ‘Some Far Eastern Elements in Coloured-ground Sultanabad Wares’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, no. 7 on p. 37, pp. 20 & 31, illus. p. 22 fig. 3

Glossary (3)

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fritware, slip, underglaze painting

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).
slip

A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
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

- First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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