Dish
9th/11th century (made)
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Fragment from the rim of a shallow bowl, porcelain, molded with a foliate motif, unglazed rim, covered in a clear glaze, now crackled and stained.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, molded decoration |
| Brief description | Fragment from a bowl, porcelain, bluish-white glaze, moulded around the exterior; Ding/xing yao (ware); China, 9th-11th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment from the rim of a shallow bowl, porcelain, molded with a foliate motif, unglazed rim, covered in a clear glaze, now crackled and stained. |
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| Content description | Foliate |
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| Object history | Found in excavations at al-Mina, in SYRIA. 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 Oxford. |
| Production | CHINESE (qingbai ware) |
| 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.303-1931 |
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| Record created | March 7, 2000 |
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