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Bowl with arabesques and naskhi inscriptionoblique

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Bowl with arabesques and naskhi inscription

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Asia › Iran › Kashan (possible place of creation)
    Date
    13th century (1201 - 1300)
    Material and technique
    fritware, with underglaze painting in blue and overglaze painting in lustre
    Dimensions
    7.2 cm (height)
    14.2 cm (diameter)
    at foot 6 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    glazed,
    more
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bowl
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2266

  • 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. 308 on p. 109, illus. p. 109

Glossary (3)

fritware, lustre, 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).

  • lustre

    Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.

  • 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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