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Bowl with human-faced suntop

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  • Bowl with human-faced sun (side)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (side)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (side)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (side)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (side)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (oblique)
  • Bowl with human-faced sun (bottom)
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  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Asia › Iran › Kashan (probable place of creation)
    Date
    late 12th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    8 cm (height)
    19 cm (diameter)
    at foot 6.6 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2256

  • 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. 305 on p. 109, illus. p. 109

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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