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Bowl with circles containing arabesques
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Iraq › Kish Tells › Sha'al Ghazna (place of excavation)Asia › Afghanistan (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
- Associated people
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Gerald Reitlinger (1900 - 1978) (field collector)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with decoration incised through the slip, and underglaze painting in green and brown
- Dimensions
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11 cm (height)
35.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 14.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.2122
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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. 286 on p. 103, illus. p. 103
Glossary (3)
earthenware, slip, underglaze painting
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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.
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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
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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
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- currently in research collection
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