Browse: 10610 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
Octagonal dish with leaves and cartouches containing inscription
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Europe › United Kingdom › England › Staffordshire (Wedgwood) (place of creation)
- Date
- early 19th century
- Artist/maker
-
Wedgwood (established 1759) (manufacturer)
- Associated people
-
Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar, King of Iran (ruled 1797 - 1834) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- bone china, with underglaze painting in blue, and gilding
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 26.9 x 21.2 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Johnson, 1992.
- Accession no.
- EA1992.55
-
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. 16, illus. p. 15 fig. 1
Glossary
underglaze painting
-
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
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum