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But the scrollwork and lavender-blue glaze are native to the Middle East. The bowl's design was so fine, however, that for many years it was displayed as a Chinese piece.\r\n\r\nIt is made of fritware, also called stone paste and quartz paste. Middle Eastern potters developed the material as a response to the challenge posed by Chinese porcelain. In the 12th and early 13th centuries, potters in Kashan and other centres in Iran used fritware to produce fine wares decorated in an astonishing range of styles. Occasionally the potters created wares which openly emulated Chinese ceramics, such as this bowl.","physicalDescription":"Fritware, with carved decoration under a blue glaze with a lobed rim and scroll motifs.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"fritware","id":"x29419"}],"techniques":[{"text":"glazing","id":"AAT53914"},{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Fritware, carved and glazed","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AF6941","2006AF7236","2017JX8673"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"42","id":"THES49806"},"free":"","case":"2W","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bowl","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Kashan","id":"x30242"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1180-1200","earliest":"1180-01-01","latest":"1200-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"18.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Carved fritware bowl with a blue glaze, Iran (probably Kashan), 1180-1200.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>The Arts of Islam</u>, Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, 8 April - 4 July, 1976, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. 396p., ill. ISBN 0 7287 0081 6 paper bound, 07287 0080 8 cloth bound. Catalogue entry 332, p. 240"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lane, A. <u>Early Islamic Pottery</u>, London, 1947. 52p., ill. Page 34, pl. 41a"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lane, A. 'Sung Wares and the Saljuq Pottery of Persia' <u>In</u>: <u>Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society</u>, vol.22, 1948. p. 24, pl. 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The band of scrollwork near the beaker’s top has been pierced and then filled with glaze.\r\n\r\nFritware with carved and painted (7) decoration under white or blue glaze\r\n\r\nMuseum nos. C.267-1919, Given by Sir Charles Marling, KCMG, CB; C.185-1926; C.68-1931","date":{"text":"2006","earliest":"2006-01-01","latest":"2006-12-31"}},{"text":"Dish\r\nFritware, with carved decoration and a blue glaze\r\nPERSIA; about 1180 to 1200 AD\r\nThis bowl was acquired, and was for many years displayed, as a piece of \"Chinese stoneware\". Such high quality work was not thought possible in the Islamic world. Thought the dish copies a Chinese shape with a lobed rim, the form of the scrolling and the blue glaze are entirely Islamic inventions.","date":{"text":"Used until 11/2003","earliest":null,"latest":"2003-11-30"}}],"partNumbers":["C.68-1931"],"accessionNumberNum":"68","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1931,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2016JE1497","2019LP7544","2019LT2232","2019LV3916"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2003-11-04","availableToBook":false}}