Bowl
20th century (made)
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Bowl of fritware painted with black under a turquoise glaze. Straight flaring walls on a tall ring foot. Painted with a harpy and foliage scrolls on a black ground in the centre, with arabesque devices in black on the walls. Rim with trilobed leaves in a 'half-moon' border, the reverse with panels of 'water weed' motifs separated by double vertical lines. Turquoise glaze is thin and patchy in places.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware painted with black under a turquoise glaze |
| Brief description | Bowl of fritware painted with black under a turquoise glaze, Iran, 20th century. |
| Physical description | Bowl of fritware painted with black under a turquoise glaze. Straight flaring walls on a tall ring foot. Painted with a harpy and foliage scrolls on a black ground in the centre, with arabesque devices in black on the walls. Rim with trilobed leaves in a 'half-moon' border, the reverse with panels of 'water weed' motifs separated by double vertical lines. Turquoise glaze is thin and patchy in places. |
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| Gallery label | Bowl
Fritware with uderglaze painting
PERSIA; about 1960AD
C.179-1984
This bowl is a copy of the original 13th century bowl shown alongside. It is characteristic of a large group of forgeries that appeared in Persia in the 1960s. The forger had not seen the original, but was copyng from a small black and white illustration in a book. He evidently had difficulty in copying the details accurately.(Old 133 G Label) |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jones, Mark (ed.), Fake? : The Art of Deception, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990
p.226 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.179-1984 |
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| Record created | October 24, 2003 |
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