Dish
12th century (made)
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Dish after a metal bowl shape, with flat base and vertical rim, supported on low footrim. Decorated in white slip on the pinkish-buff body with the figure of a stork-like bird with lowered head, surrounded by scroll-work, one end of which terminates on a bird's head.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with white slip |
| Brief description | Earthenware with slip-painted decoration. Byzantine, 12th century. |
| Physical description | Dish after a metal bowl shape, with flat base and vertical rim, supported on low footrim. Decorated in white slip on the pinkish-buff body with the figure of a stork-like bird with lowered head, surrounded by scroll-work, one end of which terminates on a bird's head. |
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| Credit line | Bought |
| Object history | Bought from Mohammed Yeganeh of Frankfurt. |
| Historical context | C.49-1971 was bought from the same dealer. |
| Bibliographic reference | Bibliography: Armstrong, `Byzantine Glazed Ceramic Tableware in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 71, 1/2 (1997), pp. 4-15. This paper deals with similar bowls from same ship wreck |
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| Accession number | C.35-1972 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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