Bowl with animals against a foliate background
On displayDetails
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Title
Bowl with animals against a foliate background
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Associated place
Iran (place of creation) -
Date
early 13th century -
Material and technique
fritware, with painting in black under a turquoise glaze
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.9 cm (height)
22 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
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Museum location
First floor | Gallery 31 | Islamic Middle East -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1956.29
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Glossary of terms
fritware
glaze
Further reading
Reitlinger, Gerald, ‘Sultanabad: Classification and Chronology’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 20, (1944-1945), p. 28, pl. 10 d
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), pp. 29, 32, & 37, illus. p. 28 pl. 23
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 110 on p. 96, pl. G (colour)