Bowl

Place of OriginRayy, Persia

Date13th century

DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm).

MediumGlazed earthenware with enamel decoration.

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1941.20

Not on View

DescriptionA thinly potted bowl with a gently flaring foot. Decorated in haft rang, seven-color polychrome technique. Decorated on the interior with a mounted bowman slaying a dragon. The archer's brown steed floats amid floral arabesques in low relief with traces of gold. Around the interior of the rim, a Kufic inscription in gold on a dark blue band. The exterior is covered by interlocking lozenges drawn in light blue.

Published References

Morsell, M., "Persian Pottery Now Being Shown at Parish-Watson," Art News, May, 1934, pp. 3, 9.

The Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, Gallery Notes, Feb. - March 1936, ill.

The Toledo Museum of Art: Museum News, December 1941, p. 1511, fig. 10.

Exhibition History

London, Royal Academy, International Exhibition of Persian Art, 1931.

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, probably in the Jalanivich and Olsen Ceramics Exhibition, 1932-1933.

Rochester, NY, The Memorial Art Gallery, Persian Islamic Art, 1936.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest, 1959, no. 83, repr. p. 63.