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Dish with looped crosstop

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Dish with looped cross

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (north-east) (place of creation)
    Date
    10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
    Samanid Period (AD 819 - 1005)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, covered in white slip, and with underglaze painting in black
    Dimensions
    3.5 cm (height)
    30.1 cm (diameter)
    at foot 20 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware
    Technique index
    slipped,
    covered › coated › slipped,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › dish
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1754

  • 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. 290 on p. 104, illus. p. 104

Glossary (3)

earthenware, slip, underglaze painting

  • earthenware

    Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.

  • slip

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

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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