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Dish with doves and pseudo-kufic inscription

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    12th century (1101 - 1200)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with decoration carved through a white slip under a transparent glaze
    Dimensions
    4.4 cm (height)
    29.5 cm (diameter)
    at foot 13.6 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    formed carved,
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2134
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 294 on p. 105, illus. p. 105

Glossary (4)

earthenware, glaze, kufic, slip

  • 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.

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • kufic

    A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.

  • slip

    A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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