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jug
Object Type
jug
Museum number
1952,0214.1
Description
Jug, made of earthenware, painted in pale yellow lustre on a white tin glaze ground. 'Peacock eye' motif and frieze of birds, including stylised peacocks.
Cultures/periods
Abbasid dynasty
Production date
9thC-10thC
Production place
Made in:
Basra
Materials
earthenware
Technique
painted
lustred
Dimensions
Height:
11.70 centimetres
Curator's comments
Jones 1990 Islamic jug This small jug, with its stylised peacock decoration, dates from the ninth century AD. Viewed by ordinary light it appears to have a few small cracks, but x-rays reveal that it is very extensively damaged, with large areas, especially around the rim, completely missing and made up in plaster.
Bibliographic references
Jones 1990a / Fake? The Art of Deception
(307)
Pope 1938 / Survey of Persian Art
(pl.576.B)
Pinder-Wilson 1976b / Oriental Ceramics, the world's great collections: the British Museum
(fig.282)
Pinder-Wilson 1952 / Recent Acquisitions of Islamic Pottery
(p.80)
Stoke-On-Trent Museum and Art Gallery 1949 / Guide to the Collection of Early Islamic Pottery Lent by Sir Ernest Debenham, Bart, 1949
(fig.12)
Location
On display
(G42/dc16)
Subjects
bird
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet
Acquisition date
1952
Department
Middle East
Registration number
1952,0214.1