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Footed Bowl

Footed Bowl

late 1100s–early 1200s
fritware, pierced and underglaze painting
Overall: 9.8 x 18.2 cm (3 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.581
Location: not on view

Description

Iranian potters created transparency by piercing and glazing frit-body walls. Here, triangles and rosettes decorate incised scallops beneath the blue rim. The footed shape is derived from Iranian metal bowls.
  • ?–1915
    (D.G. Kelekian [1867–1951], New York, NY, sold to H.W. Kent using funds from the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust for the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1915–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Pope, Arthur Upham, and Theodore Bestermann. 1938. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. Edited by Phyllis Ackerman. London: Oxford University Press. pl. 594
    Lane, Arthur. 1947. Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber. p. 33
    Atil, Esin, and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (3 : 1973 : Washington, D.C.). 1973. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition / Freer Gallery of Art, 3. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Numbers 13-15
    Atil, Esin, and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (3 : 1973 : Washington, D.C.). 1973. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition / Freer Gallery of Art, 3. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Nos. 13-15
  • The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
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