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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

13th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of buff fritware decorated in relief, painted in colours and gilded over a cream-coloured enamel, and with a small foot. On the outside are ten pierced bosses. Painted inside, partly over low relief decorations, with red painted lines with a four-sided device composed of scrolls in dark blue with turquoise corners from which radiate four T-shaped devices composed of dark blue arabesques. Between the arabesques are four leaf-shaped compartments coloured turquoise-blue. Outside are arabesques in dark blue with red lines partly over low-relief.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware decorated in relief and pierced, painted and gilded over enamel
Brief description
Dish of buff fritware, with a small foot, decorated in relief, painted in colours and gilded over enamel, Iran, 13th century.
Physical description
Dish of buff fritware decorated in relief, painted in colours and gilded over a cream-coloured enamel, and with a small foot. On the outside are ten pierced bosses. Painted inside, partly over low relief decorations, with red painted lines with a four-sided device composed of scrolls in dark blue with turquoise corners from which radiate four T-shaped devices composed of dark blue arabesques. Between the arabesques are four leaf-shaped compartments coloured turquoise-blue. Outside are arabesques in dark blue with red lines partly over low-relief.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.5cm
  • Diameter: 20.9cm
Production
register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.534-1921

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Record createdApril 3, 2009
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