The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Luster Bowl with Man Holding a Banner

Luster Bowl with Man Holding a Banner

900s
Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.); Overall: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This golden bowl displays a man holding a staff with a banner surmounted by a ball, crescent, and long streamer. He is flanked by two peacocks, one holding a palmette in his beak.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 23, fig. 25
  • Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
  • {{cite web|title=Luster Bowl with Man Holding a Banner|url=false|author=|year=900s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.331