Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginPersia
Datelate 13th century
Dimensions4 5/8 × 8 3/8 × 7 1/8 × 3 3/16 in. (11.7 × 21.3 × 18.2 × 8.1 cm)
Mediumceramic
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of Mustapha Avigdor
Object number
1919.37
Not on View
DescriptionTall angular bowl with a wide flaring foot. Inside bands with details picked out in blue; in center, a school of fish, now almost completely worn away. Outside, band of sloppy nashki on the flange; below decorative medallions and bands in brownish-gold lustre, somewhat abraded. Abrasion makes it unsuitable for showing. Cream colored body with lustre finish and under painting in blue.
Exhibition HistoryGrand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, The Art of Persia, May 1954.
250-150 BCE
15th Century
15th Century
Unidentified, Gorgoneion Group
about 560 BCE
about 1815-1820
about 700 BCE
1860-1890
15th Century
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