bowl

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: 1945,1017.264
Description: Bowl. 8 rows of eye-like ellipses with discs. Made of cream slipware and glazed pottery (red).
Cultures/periods
Production date: 10thC
Production place: Made in: Nishapur
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Samarkand (?)
Materials
Technique: slipped; glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 34.30 centimetres; Height: 11.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Bowl painted in coloured slips with a peacock feather motif under a colourless glaze Nishapur, Iran, 10th century
Bibliographic references: Pope 1938 / Survey of Persian Art (pl.561.B); Lane 1947 / Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia (fig.18.B); Charleston 1979 / Islamic Pottery (fig.16); Pinder-Wilson 1976b / Oriental Ceramics, the world's great collections: the British Museum (fig.284); Pézard 1920 / La céramique archaïque de l'Islam et ses origines (pl.xcviii.1); Barrett 1950 / The Raphael Bequest II Oriental Antiquities Persian Pottery (p.93)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2012-2013 24 Nov-13 Jan, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Beauty and Belief 2012 24 Feb-29 Sep, Provo, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Beauty and Belief 2007 14 Sep-2 Dec, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2007 3 Feb-27 May, Taipei, National Palace Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Jacques Doucet (his sale, 28 Nov. 1930, lot 77, pl. xxvi); Previous owner/ex-collection: M V Stolyaroff; Previous owner/ex-collection: George Joseph Demotte (ca.1920)
Acquisition date: 1945
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 1945,1017.264
Conservation

Free entry

Opening hours