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Dish with fish and leafy spraystop

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  • Dish with fish and leafy sprays (oblique)
  • Dish with fish and leafy sprays (oblique)
  • Dish with fish and leafy sprays (side)
  • Dish with fish and leafy sprays (bottom)
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Dish with fish and leafy sprays

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    Associated place
    Iraq (place of creation)
    Date
    9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
    Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and painting in blue
    Dimensions
    4.5 cm (height)
    30.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    earthenware
    Technique index
    glazed,
    glazed,
    painted,
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    Object type index
    dish
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.127

  • Further reading

    Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 16 on p. 45, pl. 10 a

    Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), p. 10, illus. p. 11 pl. 6

    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, p. 117, illus. p. 118 fig. 1

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earthenware, glaze

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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