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Jar with incised lustre bandside

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  • Jar with incised lustre band (side)
  • Jar with incised lustre band (side)
  • Jar with incised lustre band (side)
  • Jar with incised lustre band (oblique)
  • Jar with incised lustre band (bottom)
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  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Syria (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 12th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    15.4 cm (height)
    11 cm max. (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    covered › coated › glazed,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › jar
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2249

  • Further reading

    Porter, Venetia, and Oliver Watson, ‘'Tell Minis' Ware’, James Allan and Caroline Roberts, eds, Syria and Iran: Three Studies in Medieval Ceramics, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 1987), 4, no. A57 on p. 212, p. 180, illus. p. 235 fig. A57

Glossary (2)

fritware, lustre

  • 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).

  • lustre

    Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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