bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1945,1017.265
Description: Bowl. Octagonal, panels decorated with investiture scenes and confronted sphinxes. Glaze has worn away in certain areas, most especially the base. Fritware (stonepaste); moulded with turquoise glaze.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1150-1200 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Iran
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cairo
Materials
Technique: glazed; mould-made
Dimensions: Height: 14 centimetres; Width: 18 centimetres
Curator's comments: Octagonal fritware bowl with a moulded decoration under a turquoise glaze West Iran, 12th-13th century The panels contain, alternately, confronted sphinzes and horsemen holding a wreath. The latter is a Sasanian motif seen on the rock reliefs of western Iran.
Bibliographic references: Pope 1938 / Survey of Persian Art (pl.768.B); Lane 1947 / Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia (fig.42.A); Barrett 1950 / The Raphael Bequest II Oriental Antiquities Persian Pottery (p.94-95); Akbarnia et al 2018 / The Islamic World: a History in Objects (p.88, fig.2)
Location: On display (G42/dc3)
Subjects
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1945
Acquisition notes: OA register: "Bought from Kharvam (?), Cairo, 1932".
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 1945,1017.265
Conservation

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