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Star tile with phoenix
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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late 13th century - early 14th century
Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)
- Material and technique
- fritware, moulded, with underglaze painting in blue and overglaze painting in lustre
- Dimensions
- 21 x 21 x 1.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- EAX.3195
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Further reading
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), p. 38, illus. p. 41 pl. 35
Glossary (4)
fritware, lustre, phoenix, underglaze painting
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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).
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lustre
Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.
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phoenix
Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
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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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