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Maker/s	Unknown (potter)
Collection	Henry Scipio Reitlinger
Category	fritware (stonepaste) Islamic pottery (sub-category)lustreware (sub-category)
Name	bowl
School/Style	Seljuk Monumental style
Description	Frtiwate with white and blue glaze painted in lustre Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white glaze on the exterior and a streaked, pitted blue glaze on the interior both slightly crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre. Shape: bowl with slightly bulbous vertical sides and an everted rim descending via a carination onto a moderately high foot ring. Exterior: Central frieze on the body comprises foliated vegetation and palmettes painted in reverse against a lustred background, it is contained above and below by a concentric band of lustre. The interior of each leaf and stem is outlined in a single painted lustre line. Glaze covers the body to the upper part of the foot ring and splashed spots of light blue, from the interior glaze, are visible at two points. Interior: A concentric band of lustre paint decorates the rim over a blue glaze.
Production Place	Iran (potter) (country) () Iranian (potter) (nationality) ()
Technique Description	Buff fritware, wheel thrown, with an opaque white glaze on the exterior and a streaked, pitted blue glaze on the interior both slightly crazed and painted with yellow-brown lustre
Dimensions	height: (whole): 12.5 cm width: (whole): 17.3 cm diameter: (rim): 17.3 cm diameter: (base): 8.2 cm weight: (whole): 594 g
Period	late 12th Century
Date	circa 1179 to 1198
Provenance	bequeathed: Reitlinger, Henry Scipio 1950 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Inscriptions/Marks	label Position: loose Method: hand written in black ink Content: ISCER/604 Description: paper tie on label with string attached and a green sticker adhered to the string Interpretation: Wendy Rose packing label created when collection was moved from Maidenhead
Documentation	Watson, Oliver (1985) Persian Lustre Ware, London: Faber and Faber Limited [page: 45-67] [comments: Cf. closest parallel for scrolling vegetal design see catalogue number 20b (p. 57). Cf. vessel form figure 7 (p. 51). Ref. for monumental style] Watson, Oliver (2004) Ceramics from Islamic Lands, London: Thames & Hudson [page: 353] [comments: Cf. vessel form see Cat. O.10] Mason, Robert, B. (2004) Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East, California: Maznda Publications [page: 128-150] [comments: Cf. vegetal design see ‘line-leaf’ motif and its use]
Other Notes
Accession Number	C.446-1991 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 75127; Input Date: 2004-03-11 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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