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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Ceramic dish with deer, phoenix, and lotus blossoms

Ceramic dish with deer, phoenix, and lotus blossoms

1300–1350
Location: 116 Islamic

Did You Know?

Fritware is made of ground quartz, glass frit (partially fused glass), and a small proportion of fine white clay to approximate the light color and weight of Chinese porcelain.

Description

The design of a flying phoenix on the rim was frequently represented on vessels and tilework of this period. The motif was derived from China, most likely transmitted on prestigious silk textiles.
  • ?–1924
    Mrs. Chauncey J. [Mary A. I. Mitchell] Blair [1856–1940], Chicago, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1924–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Bowie, Theodore Robert. East-West in Art; Patterns of Cultural & Aesthetic Relationships. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1966. no.134
    Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 235, fig. 6.20.
  • Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).
    East-West in Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN.
    East-West in Art. Museum of Art of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 31, 1966).
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Source URL:

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