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Dish with floral decoration
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- Date
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1890s
Qajar Period (1779 - 1925)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with polychrome underglaze painting
- Dimensions
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6.5 cm (height)
35 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1483
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Further reading
Godman, Frederick Du Cane, The Godman Collection of Oriental and Spanish Pottery and Glass, 1965-1900 (London: Taylor and Francis, 1901), pl. LIV
Lane, Arthur, Later Islamic Pottery: Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), p. 60
Watson, Oliver, ‘Iznik from Isfahan’, Apollo, 114/September, (1981), pp. 177-178, fig. 10
Glossary (2)
fritware, underglaze painting
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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).
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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
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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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