- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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The bowl is shallow with a flat rim and a low ring foot. The design is inscribed and painted in green, yellow and purple-brown on a white background. The foot and much of the exterior are unglazed. The clay is reddish buff in color.
Clay: soft, red.
Glaze: thin, transparent, of greenish cast.
Decoration: design incised; areas colored green, yellow and aubergine on a white slip, under glaze.
- Published References
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- Smithsonian Institution. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1942-1943. Washington. pl. 1.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 301.
- Arthur Lane. Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Persia. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain London. pl. 35, a.
- Robert J. Charleston. Islamic Pottery. Masterpieces of Western and Near Eastern Ceramics, vol. 4 Tokyo and New York. pl. 63.
- Richard Ettinghausen. Medieval Near Eastern Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and Baltimore. p. 21.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Art of the Arab World. Exh. cat. Washington, 1975. cat. 29, p. 74.
- Ernst Grube. The World of Islam. Landmarks of the World's Art London. p. 81, pl. 41.
- Dr. Esin Atil. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 62, pp. 138-139.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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