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Bowl with vegetal decoration and central rosettetop

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Bowl with vegetal decoration and central rosette

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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, with decoration in blue, turquoise, and lustre

Dimensions

10 cm (height)
21.7 cm (diameter)
at foot 6.8 cm (diameter)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

Object type index

container › vessel › bowl

No. of items

1

Credit line

Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.1640
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. 319 on p. 113, illus. p. 113

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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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