Bowl

Place of OriginSyria or Persia

Date11th century

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm)

MediumGlazed earthenware with luster decoration.

ClassificationCeramics

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

Object number

1941.9

Not on View

DescriptionA large round bowl with a wide flat rim and short foot, covered with an amber glaze with lozenges, stylized fish and seaweed, painted with a greenish-gold luster.

Published References

The Toledo Museum of Art: Museum News, December 1941, p. [1508], repr. fig. 5.

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum, [Special Persian exhibition], 1926

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ceramic Art of the Near East, 1931, no. 171.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art, November 1944 - January 1945.

Houston, Museum of Natural Science; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History; Brooklyn Museum, The Heritage of Islam, 1982-1984, no. 192.