Fragment
13th century (made)
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Fragment, buff-coloured earthenware, tall footring, painted in blackish cobalt with a foliate design within a roundel of double lines, covered in a clear glaze tinted turquoise. inside foot ring glazed.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Fragment, earthenware, painted with blue-black foliate lotus flower motif under a turquoise glaze; Syria (possibly Raqqa), 13th century. Found at Kish, Iraq. |
| Physical description | Fragment, buff-coloured earthenware, tall footring, painted in blackish cobalt with a foliate design within a roundel of double lines, covered in a clear glaze tinted turquoise. inside foot ring glazed. |
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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.265-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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