Cooking-pot
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Description:
Cooking-pot; handmade; brittle black micaceous fabric with remnants of a glossy burnished surface.
Object type: | cooking-pot |
Museum number: | 2007,6001.9858 |
Date: | 7thC-9thC |
Production place: | Made in: India |
Findspot: | Excavated/Findspot: Siraf, Site: ? Area: ? Context: ? |
Materials: | pottery |
Technique: | handmade, burnished |
Dimensions: | Length: 25.50 cm Height: 21.00 cm Thickness: 1.00 cm Diameter: 17.00 cm Percentage: 100.00 % |
Location: | 21 |
Exhibition history: | Exhibited: 2018, 6 May- 30 June, National Museum, New Delhi, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories 2017-2018, 10 Nov 2017 - 18 Feb 2018, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, India, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories 2016-2017, 21 Oct-21 Apr, Perth, Australia, Western Australian Museum, “Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean World” 2014-2015 Nov-April/May, BM, G69a, 'Connecting continents: Indian Ocean trade and exchange' |
Curator's comments:
In contrast to the many fragmentary vessels found in contemporary coastal settlements in the Persian Gulf and East Africa, this Indian cooking pot (made 600s–800s) stands out for its complete condition. Such vessels may represent everyday household items belonging to South Asian emigrants involved in Indian Ocean trade, but could also have been used by other foreign and local residents of Siraf. No findspot marked on object or bag label.
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