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Fragment

13th/14th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Iran (made)
Iraq (made)

The decoration may relate to Central Asian textiles.


Object details

Category
Ceramics
Object type
Fragment
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Fragment
  • Fragment
  • Fragment
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, glazed, painted
Earthenware
Glazing
Painting
Brief description
Fragment, white ware painted with manganese and cobalt; Iran or Iraq, 14th/14th century. Found at Kish, Iraq.
Physical description
Fragments, three pieces, buff-coloured earthenware, covered in tin-opacified white glaze, inpainted in purple-manganese with scrollwork and scattered roundels with tight scrolls and line band filling half the roundel and repeated in turquoise, the ground with turquoise foliate-leaf motifs. Evidence of a trivet kiln support on the underside on one of the fragments.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm (Note: C.288-1931)
  • Width: 8cm (Note: C.288-1931)
  • Height: 5.5cm (Note: C.288&A-1931)
  • Width: 8.2cm (Note: C.288&A-1931)
  • Diameter: 8cm (Note: C.288&A-1931. Proposed diameter of foot ring.)
  • Height: 7cm (Note: C.288&B-1931)
  • Width: 7cm (Note: C.288&B-1931)
Content description
Abstract
Style
Mongol
Marks and inscriptions
  • S84 (Appears in ink on C.288&A-1931 and C.288&B-1931. Added during excavations.)
  • 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.
Summary
The decoration may relate to Central Asian textiles.
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.288-1931

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O339243/fragment-unknown/
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