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Ewer with rosettes, lozenges, and scrolls
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Details
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- Date
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probably late 13th century - early 14th century
Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with red and white enamels and gold over a cobalt-blue glaze
- Dimensions
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24.2 cm (height)
16.2 cm (diameter)
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covered › metallized › gilded
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.74
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Further reading
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 131 on pp. 103-104, pl. 56 a
Hobson, R. L., The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, 6 vols (London: E. Benn, 1925-1928), illus. vol. vi fig. 388 & vol. vi pl. lxi
Ettinghausen, Richard, ‘New Affiliations for a Classical Persian Pottery Type’, Parnassus, viii/March, (1936), illus. p. 12 fig. 3a
Glossary (2)
fritware, glaze
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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).
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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