Dish with central floral decoration
Details
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Title
Dish with central floral decoration
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Associated place
Iraq (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000) -
Material and technique
earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and green, yellow and blue decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
31.7 cm (diameter)
3 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.
EA1956.132
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
Further reading
Pope, Arthur Upham, with contributions by Phyllis Ackerman and Eric Schroeder, Masterpieces of Persian art (New York: The Dryden press, 1945), pl. 47
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 15 on p. 45, pl. 9 b
Tamari, Vera, ‘Abbasid Blue-on-white Ware’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, no. 3 on p. 141
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