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Bowl

late 1100s-early 1200s

Ayyubid Syria, Rusapha

Fritware with luster-painted design

Overall: 10.2 x 36 cm (4 x 14 3/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.75

Location

not on view

Description

Fritware

Where fine clay was unavailable, potters made a paste out of ground quartz, clay, and glass. When fired, the paste created a compact white material called fritware that approximated the appearance of porcelain.

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Inscription

Rim decoration may represent highly abstracted scripts but there are no legible words.

Provenance

V. Everit Macy Sr. [1871–1930], New York ¹

after 1931?-1944

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1944-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹V[alentine] Everit Macy Sr. was an American industrialist and philanthropist and was involved in local government in Westchester County, New York.

Citations

Dimand, Maurice Sven. Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931. Mentioned: no. 170, p. 39; Reproduced: no. 170 [unpaginated]

Dimand, Maurice Sven. Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931. Mentioned: no. 170, p. 39

Anderson Galleries, New York. English, American & Continental Furniture: Rare Jacobean, Queen Anne, & Georgian Silver, Fine English & French Porcelains, Oriental & Aubusson Carpets, Objects of Art. 21-22 January 1938 sale. No. 492

Hollis, Howard. “Two near Eastern Lustered Bowls.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 31, no. 9, 1944, pp. 158–163, and inside cover. Mentioned: pp. 158–160; Reproduced: inside cover [unpaginated] www.jstor.org

Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, fig. 28

Exhibition history

Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).

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