Bowl with polychrome splashed decoration
On display
Details
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Title
Bowl with polychrome splashed decoration
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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 splashed decoration in a transparent glaze
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.5 cm (height)
25 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.
EA1956.61
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
Further reading
Hobson, R. L., The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, 6 vols (London: E. Benn, 1925-1928), vol. vi fig. 377
Lane, Arthur, Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Persia, Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, 1947), p. 12, pl. 7 b
Ayers, John, and others, World ceramics: An Illustrated History, ed. Robert J. Charleston (London: Hamlyn, 1968), no. 197
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), p. 9
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 1 on p. 37, pl. 3 a
Soustiel, Jean, La céramique islamique: le guide du connaisseur (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1985), no. 38 p. 61
