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Bowl with geometrical patterns
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- Date
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9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with moulded decoration, and touches of green on a yellow glaze
- Dimensions
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4.8 cm (height)
18 cm (diameter)
at foot 5.8 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.2143
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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. 282 on p. 102, illus. p. 102
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 63
Raby, Julian, ‘Looking for Silver in Clay: A New Perspective on Samanid Ceramics’, M. Vickers, ed., Pots and Pans: A Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese and Graeco-Roman Worlds, Oxford 1985, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 182, illus. p. 183 fig. 3
Glossary (2)
earthenware, glaze
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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.
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
Location
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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