Fragment
11th/12th century (made)
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Fragment from a shallow dish, pink-buff coloured earthenware, covered in a thin white slip with incised with fine and thick line bands and spiralling scrolls within a quatrefoil motif, lead glaze with details splashed in dense chrome green and manganese-purple. Glazed inside footring
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, incised and glazed. |
| Brief description | Fragment, sgraffito ware with green and purple splashes; Iraq or Iran, 10th/11th century.Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment from a shallow dish, pink-buff coloured earthenware, covered in a thin white slip with incised with fine and thick line bands and spiralling scrolls within a quatrefoil motif, lead glaze with details splashed in dense chrome green and manganese-purple. Glazed inside footring |
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| Content description | Geometric Abstract |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 1 Note Written in ink on reverse, probably added during excavation. |
| 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Reitlinger, Gerald, 'Islamic Pottery from Kish', Ars Islamica Vol. II, No. 2, 1935, pp. 198-218, fig. 16B and p. 212 |
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| Accession number | C.292A-1931 |
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| Record created | July 19, 2019 |
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