Fragment
14th century (made)
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Fragment, fritware, finely potted, painted with broad black bands forming a grid or checkerboard with fine incised (sgrafitto) lines cut though for a second grid, covered in a clear glaze on both sides. The glaze has irridized.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, underglaze painted and incised. |
| Brief description | Fragment, whiteware, painted with black grid and incised lines; Syria, 14th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment, fritware, finely potted, painted with broad black bands forming a grid or checkerboard with fine incised (sgrafitto) lines cut though for a second grid, covered in a clear glaze on both sides. The glaze has irridized. |
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| Content description | Floral |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald Reitlinger. 49 Glebe Place, Chelsea, SW. 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 Oxford. |
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| Accession number | C.255F-1931 |
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| Record created | July 19, 2018 |
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