Dish with flying crane against a floral background

Details

• Title

  Dish with flying crane against a floral background

• Associated place

  Asia › Iran (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1500
  Timurid Period (1370 - 1507)

• Material and technique

  fritware, with underglaze painting in blue and black

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › glazed composition › stonepaste › fritware

• Technique index

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › dish

• Dimensions

  7 cm (height)
  35 cm (diameter)
  at foot 18.6 cm (diameter)

• 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.

  EA1978.1605

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