Fragment
10th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Fragment of a bowl, porcelain, with a section of the splayed footrim, the body incised and carved, under a thin, clear glaze, now slightly yellow tinged.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, incised |
| Brief description | Fragment, porcelain, with incised foliage under a greenish-tinged glaze, Dingyao or Xingyao; China, 10th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment of a bowl, porcelain, with a section of the splayed footrim, the body incised and carved, under a thin, clear glaze, now slightly yellow tinged. |
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| Object history | Gift of Gerald T [sic] 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. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.304-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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