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Bowl with radiating panelstop

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Bowl with radiating panels

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    14th century (1301 - 1400)
    Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with underglaze painting in blue, turquoise, and black
    Dimensions
    10.5 cm (height)
    22.4 cm (diameter)
    at foot 7.9 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › pottery › earthenware
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    covered › coated › glazed,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1598

  • 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. 329 on p. 116, illus. p. 116

Glossary (2)

earthenware, 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.

  • 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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