Fragment
9th century (made)
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Fragment, gritty white bodied ware probably from a jar, covered in white slip and inglaze painted with overlapping double lines in cobalt blue which forms a large splash.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, inpainted |
| Brief description | Fragment, whiteware, painted in blue with hatched lines; Iraq, 9th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment, gritty white bodied ware probably from a jar, covered in white slip and inglaze painted with overlapping double lines in cobalt blue which forms a large splash. |
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| Content description | Abstract |
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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.275-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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