Dish with fish and leafy sprays
On display
Details
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Title
Dish with fish and leafy sprays
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Associated place
Iraq (place of creation) -
Date
9th century AD (AD 801 - 900)
Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258) -
Material and technique
earthenware, with an opaque white glaze, and painting in blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
4.5 cm (height)
30.5 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.
EA1956.127
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
glaze
Further reading
Ayers, John, and others, World ceramics: An Illustrated History, ed. Robert J. Charleston (London: Hamlyn, 1968), illus. p. 73 fig. 201
Allan, James W., Medieval Middle Eastern Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1971), p. 10, illus. p. 11 pl. 6
Fehérvári, Géza, Islamic Pottery: A Comprehensive Study Based on the Barlow Collection (London: Faber and Faber, 1973), no. 16 on p. 45, pl. 10 a
Fehérvári, Géza, La ceramica islamica ( Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1985), p. 74
Tamari, Vera, ‘Abbasid Blue-on-white Ware’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part Two, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.2, p. 117, illus. p. 118 fig. 1
