Dish with a rider
On display
The interior surface of this dish, probably highly damaged, was carefully cut and heavily tooled to accommodate fragments of another lustre vessel or tile. These were removed sometime after the acquisition of the piece and only a few have been reset for this display.
Details
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Title
Dish with a rider
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Artist/maker
Abu Zaid ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Zaid (active 1186 - 1219) (potter) -
Associated place
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Date
(original AH 604) -
Material and technique
fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre; restored with inserted sherds
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
4.7 cm (height)
36.5 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
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Museum location
First floor | Gallery 31 | Islamic Middle East -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1978.2320
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Glossary of terms
fritware
lustre
Further reading
Mason, Robert B., ‘Mediaeval Iranian Lustre-painted and Associated Wares: Typology in a Multidisciplinary Study’, Iran, 35, (1997), (ASH.49) p. 132
