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Plate with radial floral decoration and inscription
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1893 - 1894 (AH 1311)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with underglaze painting in blue, black, and gold
- Dimensions
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5.1 cm (height)
27.9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Johnson, 1992.
- Accession no.
- EA1992.57.b
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Further reading
Allan W., James, ‘Isfahan, Canton, Etruria - Persia and the China Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries’, ed. Sajid Rizvi, Eastern Art Report: Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Great Museums of the World, 4/2, (1995), p. 18, illus. p. 17 fig. 6
Glossary (2)
porcelain, underglaze painting
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porcelain
Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.
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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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