Fragment
10th/11th century (made)
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Fragment from three pieces, brick-red earthenware, incised with curving interlaced bands of overlapping strapwork, each with repeating 'X'-shaped motifs and foliate scrolls, covered in a clear yellowish lead glaze, also on the exterior, splashed with green-copper and purple-manganese details. The interior of the footring is covered with a green glaze.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, incised, glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment, sgrafitto splashware in green and purple; Iran or Iraq (possibly Samarra), 10th/11th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment from three pieces, brick-red earthenware, incised with curving interlaced bands of overlapping strapwork, each with repeating 'X'-shaped motifs and foliate scrolls, covered in a clear yellowish lead glaze, also on the exterior, splashed with green-copper and purple-manganese details. The interior of the footring is covered with a green glaze. |
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| Content description | Geometric |
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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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| Accession number | C.293-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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