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Maker/s | Unknown (potter) |
Collection | |
Category |
fritware (stonepaste) |
Name | tile |
School/Style | |
Description | fritware covered with white glaze painted with lustre fritware with orange tone, mould made, covered with a white glaze painted in brown lustre. Star-shaped. Decorated surface: painted in reserve against a lustred background a seated figure wearing a gown, decorated with groups of three dots, and a headdress is depicted against a background of coiling vines. On the edge of the tile, an area left undecorated in lustre forms a white contour line, that echoes its’ star shape. Glaze and lustre runs over the tile edges. Reverse surface: undecorated |
Production Notes |
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Production Place | Iran (potter) (country) () Iranian (potter) (nationality) () |
Technique Description | fritware with orange tone, mould made, covered with a white glaze painted in brown lustre |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 1.1
cm |
Period | late 12th Century |
Date | circa 1175 to 1200 |
Provenance | bequeathed: Reitlinger, Henry Scipio 1950 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, MaidenheadH. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 |
Documentation |
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Other Notes | Similar to C.443-1991 and C.442-1991 |
Accession Number | C.441-1991 (Applied Arts) |
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