Fritware bowl, Seljuq Dynasty, Iranian

An image of Bowl. Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in an opaque white, crazed glaze with slip to create relief effect. Painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and red, black with gold leaf gilding over the glaze. Height 9 cm, width 21 cm, diameter (rim) 21 cm, diameter (base) 8.8 cm, circa 1175-1220. Seljuk, Minai.

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Bowl. Buff fritware, wheel thrown, coated in an opaque white, crazed glaze with slip to create relief effect. Painted in the glaze in blue, turquoise and purple and red, black with gold leaf gilding over the glaze. Height 9 cm, width 21 cm, diameter (rim) 21 cm, diameter (base) 8.8 cm, circa 1175-1220. Seljuk, Minai.

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Accession Number: OC.158-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 741 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 583.70kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:08:03 10:36:37

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12th Century 13th Century Arabic bowl cuneiform Fitz_AA fritware gilded gilding glazed gold leaf Iranian male Medieval Minai Muslim ornate patterned Persian script Seljuk Seljuq Dynasty slip slipware thrown

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