Fragment
14th/15th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Four fragments forming part of the rim of a bowl, fritware, finely potted, painted in underglaze blue and black with foliate scrolls and palmettes within broad bands around a rim incised with a 'chain link' band. The glaze slightly green-tinged.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware, painted |
| Brief description | Rim of a bowl, four sherds, fritware, blue and black underglaze painted; possibly Iran, 14th/15th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. C.294A&B-1931 attached together. From the same bowl as, though not contiguous with, C.294-1931. |
| Physical description | Four fragments forming part of the rim of a bowl, fritware, finely potted, painted in underglaze blue and black with foliate scrolls and palmettes within broad bands around a rim incised with a 'chain link' band. The glaze slightly green-tinged. |
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| Content description | Foliate |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 49 Glebe Place, Chelsea, London Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian, who in 1930-1, was part of an archaeological excavation at Kish in the Near East financed by the Field Museum, Chicago, and in 1932 at Al-Hirah, financed by the University of Oxford. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Reitlinger, Gerald, 'Islamic Pottery from Kish', Ars Islamica Vol. II, No. 2, 1935, pp. 198-218, fig. 16B and p. 212 |
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| Accession number | C.294A-1931 |
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| Record created | July 19, 2019 |
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