Fragment
13th/14th century (made)
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Fragment, buff-coloured earthenware, covered with white slip and painted in manganese olive-black with a quatrefoil motif and arches, with panels filled in in turquoise, covered in a clear lead glaze, the foot unglazed. Evidence of old glue, repaired at time of excavation perhaps.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, underglaze painted |
| Brief description | Fragment, earthenware, painted in black with turquoise with geometric devices; Northern Iraq/Syria (probably Gezira), 13/14th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment, buff-coloured earthenware, covered with white slip and painted in manganese olive-black with a quatrefoil motif and arches, with panels filled in in turquoise, covered in a clear lead glaze, the foot unglazed. Evidence of old glue, repaired at time of excavation perhaps. |
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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. |
| 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.284-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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