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Fragment

12th/13th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Iran (made)
Iraq (made)

Fragments of four different water jars, unglazed white 'eggshell' earthenware. The shoulder of C.300A-1931 is moulded with an inscription nasta'liq reading 'Ali' (in part) on a dotted ground, presumably inspired by punched grounds on precious metalware. There are traces of the pierced grill at the neck of the filter. C.300-1931 also bears a moulded inscription.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Fragment
Parts
This object consists of 5 parts.

  • Fragment
  • Fragment
  • Fragment
  • Fragment
  • Fragment
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, moulded
Earthenware
Thrown
Moulded
Brief description
Fragments from the neck of a filter, 'eggshell' ware with nasta'liq inscription; Iran or Iraq, 12th/13th century. Found at Kish, Iraq.
Physical description
Fragments of four different water jars, unglazed white 'eggshell' earthenware. The shoulder of C.300A-1931 is moulded with an inscription nasta'liq reading 'Ali' (in part) on a dotted ground, presumably inspired by punched grounds on precious metalware. There are traces of the pierced grill at the neck of the filter. C.300-1931 also bears a moulded inscription.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9cm (Note: C.300-1931)
  • Width: 13cm
C.300B-1931: max width 7.5cm; max height 6cm
Content description
Abstract
Inscription
Style
Abbasid
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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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.
Bibliographic reference
Reitlinger, Gerald, 'Islamic Pottery from Kish', Ars Islamica Vol. II, No. 2, 1935, pp. 198-218, fig. 16B and p. 212
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
C.300-1931

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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