Bowl with peacock
Details
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Title
Bowl with peacock
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Associated place
Iraq (place of creation) -
Date
9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258) -
Material and technique
earthenware, with painting in lustre over an opaque white glaze
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7 cm (height)
24.4 cm (diameter) -
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.
EA1956.63
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
lustre
Further reading
Féhérvári, Geza, ‘Two Early 'Abbasid Lustre Bowls and the Influence of Central Asia’, Oriental Art, new ser., 9, (1963), pp. 79-88
Ayers, John, and others, World ceramics: An Illustrated History, ed. Robert J. Charleston (London: Hamlyn, 1968), illus. p. 73 fig. 202
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), pp. 12 & 13, illus. p. 12 pl. 7
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 18 on p. 46, pl. 11 a
Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World (London: Faber and Faber, 1985), illus. p. 30 fig. 7
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