Fragment
10th/11th century (made)
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Fragment, brick-red earthenware, finely potted, covered in white slip and incised with a scrolling vegetal motif on a scored ground with line bands around the rim. Covered in a thin yellowish lead glaze, which has disappeared on the reverse.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, incised and glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment, sgrafitto ware with incised vegetal motif; Iran or Iraq, 10th/11th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment, brick-red earthenware, finely potted, covered in white slip and incised with a scrolling vegetal motif on a scored ground with line bands around the rim. Covered in a thin yellowish lead glaze, which has disappeared on the reverse. |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald Reitlinger. 49 Glebe Place, Chelsea, SW. 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. |
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| Accession number | C.285-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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