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Bowl with plant, arabesque, and vegetal border

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Iran (Sultaniyya) (find spot)
    Asia Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    14th - 15th century (1301 - 1500)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with underglaze painting in blue and black
    Dimensions
    12.5 cm (height)
    24.8 cm (diameter)
    at foot 9.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1590
  • 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. 328 on p. 115, illus. p. 115

Glossary (2)

earthenware, underglaze painting

  • 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.

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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