bowl
- Museum number
- 1994,0602.1
- Description
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Small lobed, oval bowl, reddish earthenware body, lead glazes, ochre, red, and yellow. Moulded decoration consists of raised herringbone ridges between each lobe and two branches of herringbone pattern pine cones enclosing a central rosette within lobes. The base is decorated with cross-hatching containing a bead within each square. The shape derives from T'ang Chinese silver prototypes.
- Production date
- 9thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.50 centimetres
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Length: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published: Arthur Lane, 'Glazed Relief Ware of the Ninth Century A.D.', Ars Islamica, vol. VI, 1939, pp. 56-65; A.J. Butler, Islamic Pottery (London, 1926), pl. VII B, pp. 75-76. Helen Philon, Early Islamic Ceramics, p. 24, no. 47 illustrates a related fragmentary piece and notes 2 Chinese pieces of similar shape excavated at Fustat and one at Nishapur.
- Location
- On display (G42/dc13)
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- Maj W J Myers acquired the bowl in Cairo in the 1880's while serving H M Government. His collection of Egyptian antiquities formed the basis of the Myers Museum at Eton College.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1994,0602.1