Bowl

Bowl on low foot, grayish, originally white glaze decorated with a large blue composition of solid color and hatched lines forming vegetal and arabesque designs inside and outside of a square set on its point. Broken and repaired, plaster restorations.

Historical period(s)
Abbasid period, 9th century
Medium
Earthenware painted over glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 6 x 20.5 cm (2 3/8 x 8 1/16 in)
Geography
Iraq
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1966.11
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Bowl

Keywords
Abbasid period (750 - 1258), earthenware, Iraq, Samarra ware
Provenance

To 1966
C. Dikran Kelekian, New York to 1966 [1]

From 1966
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. Dikran Kelekian in 1966 [2]

Notes:

[1] See Freer Gallery or Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

[2] See note 1.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

C. Dikran Kelekian 1900-1982

Description

Bowl on low foot, grayish, originally white glaze decorated with a large blue composition of solid color and hatched lines forming vegetal and arabesque designs inside and outside of a square set on its point. Broken and repaired, plaster restorations.

Published References
  • The Art of Silk Road: New Research Trends and Perspective. Daejeon, Korea, November 30, 2021. pg 175 and 195, fig 3.
  • Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 259.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 1, pp. 14-15.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Art of the Arab World. Exh. cat. Washington, 1975. cat. 9, p. 30.
  • Richard Ettinghausen, O. Graber. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. The Pelican History of Art Hammondsworth, United Kingdom and New York. p. 112, fig. 90.
  • Dr. Esin Atil. Exhibition of Islamic Pottery at the Freer Gallery of Art. London, March 1974. p. 221, fig. 3.
Collection Area(s)
Arts of the Islamic World
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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