Fragment
13th/14th century (made)
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Fragment united from four pieces, buff-coloured earthenware, covered with white slip and painted in black with a bullrush filled in with cross hatching and a turquoise splash, covered in a clear glaze, heavily crackled and probably overfired. Exterior unglazed.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 4 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, underglaze painted |
| Brief description | Fragments, whiteware, underglaze painted in black and turquoise with a plant motif; Iran/Iraq, 13th-14th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment united from four pieces, buff-coloured earthenware, covered with white slip and painted in black with a bullrush filled in with cross hatching and a turquoise splash, covered in a clear glaze, heavily crackled and probably overfired. Exterior unglazed. |
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| Content description | Floral |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, of 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.249:1-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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