Dish
12th century (made)
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This shallow bowl imitates a metal ware prototype, probably of precious metal. The decoration is slip-painted: white liquid slip is trailed onto the unglazed red body, covered with a glaze and fired. The lead-glaze darkens the red body and makes the white slip appear yellow, heightening the contrast between background and motif
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with slip-painted decoration |
| Brief description | Dish, earthenware, painted in white slip with a design of four triangles, Byzantine, 12th century. |
| Physical description | Circular dish with low vertical rim and shallow cylindrical foot rim. Decorated in trailed or painted slip with a central equilateral triangle between three smaller isosceles triangles, all enclosing arabesque-like scrollwork. From each apex of the central triangle runs a scroll resembling the head of a crozier. Around the rim is a plain band of slip. |
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| Credit line | Bought |
| Object history | Purchased from Mohammad Yeganeh, Telemannstrasse 5, Frankfurt/Main. This object has been submerged in the sea for a long period as there are marine encrustations on it, especially on the back. When acquired, this dish was considered to be 'probably 11th-12th century'. |
| Summary | This shallow bowl imitates a metal ware prototype, probably of precious metal. The decoration is slip-painted: white liquid slip is trailed onto the unglazed red body, covered with a glaze and fired. The lead-glaze darkens the red body and makes the white slip appear yellow, heightening the contrast between background and motif |
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| Accession number | C.49-1971 |
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| Record created | February 25, 2003 |
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