Bowl with splashed decoration
On displayDetails
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Title
Bowl with 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
7 cm (height)
19.5 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.
EA1956.35
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
Further reading
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. 2 on p. 37, pl. 3 b
Fehérvári, Géza, La ceramica islamica ( Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1985), p. 78