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{
    "localId": "95038",
    "label": "Footed Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "95038",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Footed Bowl",
    "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.",
    "date": "late 1100s–early 1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.581",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756676"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.581/1915.581_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.581/1915.581_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9.8 x 18.2 cm (3 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period, late 12-early 13th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.581"
}

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    "tec": "fritware, pierced and underglaze painting",
    "tombstone": "Footed Bowl, late 1100s–early 1200s. Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period, late 12-early 13th century. Fritware, pierced and underglaze painting; overall: 9.8 x 18.2 cm (3 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.581",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pope, Arthur Upham, and Theodore Bestermann. 1938. <em>A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present</em>. Edited by Phyllis Ackerman. London: Oxford University Press.",
            "page_number": "pl. 594"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lane, Arthur. 1947. <em>Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia</em>. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber.",
            "page_number": "p. 33"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Atil, Esin, and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (3 : 1973 : Washington, D.C.). 1973. <em>Ceramics from the World of Islam</em>. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition / Freer Gallery of Art, 3. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.",
            "page_number": "Numbers 13-15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Atil, Esin, and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (3 : 1973 : Washington, D.C.). 1973. <em>Ceramics from the World of Islam</em>. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition / Freer Gallery of Art, 3. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.",
            "page_number": "Nos. 13-15"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.581",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:04:35.926000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.581/1915.581_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 95038,
    "dept": "Islamic Art",
    "coll": "Islamic Art",
    "med": "fritware, pierced and underglaze painting",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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