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Bowl with vegetal decoration and central rosette

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    late 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
    Ilkhanid Period (1256 - 1353)
    Material and technique
    fritware, with decoration in blue, turquoise, and lustre
    Dimensions
    10 cm (height)
    21.7 cm (diameter)
    at foot 6.8 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.1640
  • 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. 319 on p. 113, illus. p. 113

Glossary (2)

fritware, lustre

  • fritware

    Ceramic material composed of ground quartz and small quantities of clay and finely ground frit (frit is obtained by pouring molten glass into water).

  • lustre

    Metallic sheen obtained by applying a mixture of metallic oxides onto an already glazed ceramic that is refired at a reduced atmosphere.

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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