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Place of OriginPersia (Iran)
Date1300-1350
Dimensions4 5/16 × 8 1/8 × 7 5/8 × 3 in. (11 × 20.6 × 19.4 × 7.6 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1921.71
Not on View
DescriptionBowl with angular profile, on the inside 3 flying phoenixes amid a dense background of leaves; on the outside a band of large white pseudo-script on flange. Coarse earthenware with greenish-black colors under a thick colorless glaze.
Comparative ReferencesSee also Lane, A., Later Islamic Pottery, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, London, 1957, p. 10.

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