Dish

Flat dish with flat relief decoration of interlacing ribbons decorated with split palmettos in 4 places. Glazed clay. Paste: cream. Glaze: golden luster.
Decoration: molded with overglaze green splashes.

Covered with now partially deteriorated goldlustered lead glaze with eight green spots of varied intensity. Repaired.

Historical period(s)
Abbasid period, 9th century
Medium
Earthenware with molded decoration underglaze
Dimensions
H x W: 2.8 x 28 cm (1 1/8 x 11 in)
Geography
Iraq
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1957.23
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
Abbasid period (750 - 1258), earthenware, Iraq
Provenance
Provenance research underway.
Description

Flat dish with flat relief decoration of interlacing ribbons decorated with split palmettos in 4 places. Glazed clay. Paste: cream. Glaze: golden luster.
Decoration: molded with overglaze green splashes.

Covered with now partially deteriorated goldlustered lead glaze with eight green spots of varied intensity. Repaired.

Published References
  • unknown article. no. 1416. .
  • Sekai bijutsu zenshu [A Complete Collection of World Art]. 40 vols., Tokyo, 1960-1966. vol. 22: pl. 61.
  • Richard Ettinghausen, Ernst Kuhnel. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. 6 vols., London and New York, 1938 - 1939. vol. 5: pl. 567a.
  • Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 83.
  • Richard Ettinghausen. Medieval Near Eastern Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and Baltimore. p. 9.
  • Arthur Lane. Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Persia. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain London. p. 12, pl. 5B.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 2, pp. 16-17.
  • , vol. 22, special ed., Spring 1993. p. 26.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Art of the Arab World. Exh. cat. Washington, 1975. cat. 10, pp. 30-31.
  • Ernst Grube. The World of Islam. Landmarks of the World's Art London. p. 40, fig. 14.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Exhibition of Islamic Pottery at the Freer Gallery of Art. London, March 1974. pp. 219-221, fig. 1.
Collection Area(s)
Arts of the Islamic World
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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