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

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Associated place

Asia › Iraq (place of creation)

Date

9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)

Material and technique

earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and painting in blue

Dimensions

5.8 cm (height)
20.2 cm (diameter)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware

Technique index

glazed,

covered › coated › glazed,

covered › coated › painted,

marked › painted,

decorated › painted,

painted

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Object type index

container › vessel › bowl

No. of items

1

Credit line

Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.2138
Further reading

Tamari, Vera, ‘Abbasid Blue-on-white Ware’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, pp. 125, 133, & 135, illus. pp. 120-121 figs 7a-b

Glossary (2)

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earthenware, glaze

earthenware

Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
glaze

Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

Location

- First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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