Dish: C.431-1991

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Entities

Description

Fritware with a white glaze, painted with lustre

Pinkish fritware, wheel thrown, white, slightly crazed, glaze painted in yellow-brown lustre.
Shape: conical dish with wide, everted rim and a low foot ring.
Interior: all decoration is painted in lustre. On the lip a frieze of Arabic script (cursive) is enclosed above and below by concentric bands of differing thickness. On the body a roughly drawn pattern, radiating from a central dot in the base, consists of alternating panels of horizontal wavey lines and arabesques with a cross-hatched lozenge at their centre.
Exterior: rim decorated with a band of lustre. Radiating from the lower body, panels of interlocking scrolls are separated by a pair of vertical lines, both painted in lustre. Glaze continues to the lower body where it has a reddish tinge, probably resulting from reaction with the lustre. Oval adhesion at one point near rim marks where another vessel touched the dish during firing.

Notes

History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead

Legal notes

H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.6 cm
Weight: 1,031 g
Width: 34 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

Kashan ⪼ Iran

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Late 12th Century
Circa 1179 CE - 1198 CE

School or Style

Seljuk
miniature style

Components of the work

Exterior Body composed of oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white, slightly crazed, continues to the lower body where it has a reddish tinge, probably resulting from reaction with the lustre)
Interior composed of oxide colours ( lustre) glaze ( white, slightly crazed)
Base Diameter 13.5 cm
Rim Diameter 34 cm