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Bowl with leaves and palmettestop

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Bowl with leaves and palmettes

  • 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 and incised decoration under a green glaze
    Dimensions
    7.6 cm (height)
    19.4 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    decorated › incised,
    marked › incised,
    glazed,
    covered › coated › glazed
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.71

  • Further reading

    Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 73 on p. 79, pl. 33 a

    Soustiel, Laure, and James Allan, ‘The Problem of Saljuq Monochrome Wares’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, pp. 110-111, fig. 29 p. 109

Glossary (2)

fritware, glaze

  • 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.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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