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Dish, China, 18th century, Other
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APA
Nourane Ben Azzouna, . (n.d.). Dish, China, 18th century, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4010
Chicago
Nourane Ben Azzouna. n.d. “Dish, China, 18th century, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4010
MLA
Nourane Ben Azzouna. Dish, China, 18th Century, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4010
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_NBA_17
- Author
- Nourane Ben Azzouna
- Date
- 18th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China
- Website Link
- https://www.bonhams.com/auction/24198/lot/139/a-porcelain-dish-for-the-islamic-market-china-late-18th-century/
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Type of Object
- object\plate
- Writing Surface
- ceramic
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- circular
- Size (of the object)
- 20 cm diam.
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1 line and 3 lines
- Technique
- painted
- Instrument
- brush
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- circular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - diagonal tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - diagonal tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- Short bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short rounded denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial very low, inclined to right
- medial short rounded denticles
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle