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Dish with green glaze
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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16th century (1501 - 1600)
Safavid Period (1501 - 1722)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, thrown, with carved decoration under a green glaze
- Dimensions
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8.5 cm (height)
43.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 22 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.361
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. C361
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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The Barlow Collection
The wide rounded dish has an everted rim with raised thickened lip and a tapering foot. The inner sides are deeply carved with vertical grooves. The piece is very heavily potted, of brown earthenware and covered with an opaque light yellowish-green glaze suffused with overall streaky mottling. A wide ring has been left unglazed on the base to support the piece on a ring-shaped support in the firing, and has fired brown. The support touched the glaze and had to be removed by force, leaving a purplish-red mark. The glaze has pooled to a very thick layer in the centre and has coagulated in thick drops around the footring.
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