Fragment
11th/12th century (made)
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Fragment one of two pieces from a bowl, thinly potted of pale yellow earthenware, covered in white slip, incised with a band of foliate scrolls between line bands, covered in a clear glaze. Fine ware with a lustrous glaze.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, incised, glazed. |
| Brief description | Fragment, porcelain, with incised foliage under a greenish-tinged glaze, Dingyao or Xingyao; China, 10th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment one of two pieces from a bowl, thinly potted of pale yellow earthenware, covered in white slip, incised with a band of foliate scrolls between line bands, covered in a clear glaze. Fine ware with a lustrous glaze. |
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| Content description | Sgrafitto ware |
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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 Oxford. |
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| Accession number | C.251-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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