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

Description

Unglazed wares account for the majority of the ceramics produced in the Islamic world, although they remain largely understudied. The Ashmolean Museum owns several unglazed ceramics, and these help to provide an overview of the range of techniques used to produce and decorate ceramics of this type. This jug has a thrown body and a hand-shaped handle and rim, and is decorated with incised, stamped, and applied motifs including stylized winged creatures.
Details

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Associated place

Asia › Syria (possible place of creation)

Asia › Iraq (possible place of creation)

Date

8th - 9th century AD (AD 701 - 900)

Material and technique

earthenware, thrown, unglazed, with hand-modelled rim and handle, and incised, stamped, and applied decoration

Dimensions

36 cm (height)
19 cm max. (diameter)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware

Technique index

thrown,

formed › modelled,

marked › incised,

decorated › incised,

decorated › stamped,

marked › stamped

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Object type index

container › vessel › ewer

No. of items

1

Credit line

Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.2240
Further reading

Watson, Oliver, Ceramics from Islamic Lands (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004)

Reitlinger, Gerald, ‘Unglazed Relief Pottery from Northern Mesopotamia’, Ars Islamica, 15-16, (1951), p. 22, illus. p. 16 fig. 24

Glossary

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earthenware

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.

Location

- First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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