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14th century (made)
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Place of origin

Fragment from the base of a bowl, grey-coloured earthenware, exterior unglazed, painted in manganese black and copper turquoise with a radiating geometric pattern, glazed.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, underglaze painted
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 from the base of a bowl, grey-coloured earthenware, exterior unglazed, painted in manganese black and copper turquoise with a radiating geometric pattern, glazed.
Dimensions
  • Width: 20cm
  • Height: 7.6cm
  • Diameter: 9.2cm (Foot )
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Transliteration
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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.
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Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Reitlinger, Gerald, 'Islamic Pottery from Kish', Ars Islamica Vol. II, No. 2, 1935, pp. 198-218, fig. 16B and p. 212
Collection
Accession number
C.244-1931

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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