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

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Associated place

Asia › Iran (place of creation)

Date

late 13th century - 14th century
Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)

Material and technique

fritware, with underglaze painting in blue, turquoise, and black

Dimensions

7.5 cm (height)
34.2 cm (diameter)
at foot 14.5 cm (diameter)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

Technique index

covered › coated › painted,

marked › painted,

decorated › painted,

painted,

covered › coated › glazed,

glazed

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Object type index

container › vessel › dish

No. of items

1

Credit line

Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.1609
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. 321 on p. 114, illus. p. 114 & pl. V (colour)

Reitlinger, Gerald, ‘Sultanabad: Classification and Chronology’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 20, (1944-1945), p. 29, pl. 11 d

Glossary (2)

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fritware, underglaze painting

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).
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

- First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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