dish
- Museum number
- Af1998,02.12
- Description
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Wheel-thrown ceramic dish (tabaq) with a shallow ring base, pierced twice for suspension. Dish has white (tin?) oxide base colour sprinkled with manganese oxide. Decorated in lower section with the word 'Allah' in black oxide, repeated in smaller form in brown pastel throughout surface of dish. Concentric circles drawn in pastels in centre of dish. Clear glaze applied over top. Kiln-fired. First name of artist incised on base of dish.
- Production date
- 1989
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.70 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
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Depth: 14.50 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Khaled Ben Slimane fires his vessels twice. Following the first firing he applies the decoration, either by scratching or incising the slip-covered surface with signs, words and phrases, or by painting on coloured oxides with flat wide brushes. He then applies a layer of clear glaze and fires for the second time.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 18 May-2 Sept, London, BM, Word into Art, cat.67
- Condition
- Excellent.
- Acquisition date
- 1998 (28 February)
- Acquisition notes
- Collection acquired during a period of fieldwork in Tunisia, February - March 1998. Purchased from the artist at his studio in Tunis.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1998,02.12