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  • Bowl with winged animal (side)
  • Bowl with winged animal (bottom)
  • Bowl with winged animal (detail, inside)
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Bowl with winged animal

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    late 12th century
    Great Seljuq Period (1040 - 1194)
    Material and technique
    fritware, with slip decoration in black under a transparent glaze
    Dimensions
    9.3 cm (height)
    22 cm (diameter)
    at foot 8.1 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    covered › coated › slipped,
    slipped,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2260

  • 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. 299 on p. 106, illus. p. 106

Glossary (3)

fritware, glaze, slip

  • 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).

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • slip

    A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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