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Bowl with inscription
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with painting in blue and splashed decoration in green over an opaque white glaze
- Dimensions
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6.2 cm (height)
20.5 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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glazed › tin-glazed,covered › coated › glazed › tin-glazed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Frank Brangwyn, 1950.
- Accession no.
- EAX.1256
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Further reading
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), pp. 10 & 14, illus. p. 11 pl. 5
Tamari, Vera, ‘Abbasid Blue-on-white Ware’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, no. 1 on p. 141
Glossary (2)
earthenware, glaze
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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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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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