Dish
1650-1700 (made)
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| Place of origin |
There is a large dish, of similar size and decoration, inscribed around the rim in nasta'liq script with a date 1088 A.H./1677-8 A.D. in the British Museum, acquired in Kirman (G.308).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware with underglaze polychrome slip painting |
| Brief description | Dish, fritware, underglaze painted in blue with red and green slip, and a brown slip with incised decoration, covered in a clear glaze; Iran, 1650-1700. |
| Physical description | Dish of fritware, painted with flowers in various colours in geometrical divisions. Three black marks resembling the letter 'A' on the base. |
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| Gallery label | Dish.
Mark, " A[with three crossbars]" in black, repeated three times.
447-1878(1954-2005) |
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| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | There is a large dish, of similar size and decoration, inscribed around the rim in nasta'liq script with a date 1088 A.H./1677-8 A.D. in the British Museum, acquired in Kirman (G.308). |
| Bibliographic reference | Lane, Arthur. Later Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. 133p., ill. Pages 82-4, 118, plate 61B |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 447-1878 |
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| Record created | November 19, 2003 |
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