Fragment of a dish with peacock

On display

Details

  • Title

    Fragment of a dish with peacock

  • Associated place

    Syria (place of creation)
  • Date

    2nd half of the 12th century
  • Material and technique

    fritware, with incised decoration and colours under a transparent glaze

  • Material index

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  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    6 x 21 x 17 cm max. (height x width x depth)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

  • Museum location

    First floor | Gallery 31 | Islamic Middle East
  • Museum department

    Eastern Art

  • Accession no.

    EA1978.2177

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Glossary of terms

fritware

glaze

Further reading

Porter, Venetia, Medieval Syrian Pottery (Raqqa Ware) (Oxford: Asmolean Museum, 1981), illus. p. 35 pl. XXV

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