Bowl with quadruped, palmettes and epigraphic decoration
Details
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Title
Bowl with quadruped, palmettes and epigraphic decoration
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Associated place
Iran (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1200 - 1220 -
Material and technique
fritware, with underglaze painting in blue, and overglaze lustre
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.8 cm (diameter)
9.5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Alan Barlow, 1956.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1956.169
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Glossary of terms
fritware
lustre
underglaze painting
Further reading
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 103 on pp. 92 -93, pl. 45 b
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 70
Mason, Robert B., ‘Mediaeval Iranian Lustre-painted and Associated Wares: Typology in a Multidisciplinary Study’, Iran, 35, (1997), (ASH.17) p. 131, illus. p. 124
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