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Bowl with duck beneath a treetop

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Bowl with duck beneath a tree

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    late 12th century - early 13th century
    Material and technique
    fritware, with pierced decoration, and underglaze painting in blue, purple, and green
    Dimensions
    10 cm (height)
    20 cm (diameter)
    at foot 6.8 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    glazed,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1639

  • 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. 311 on p. 110, illus. p. 110

Glossary (2)

fritware, underglaze painting

  • 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).

  • 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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