Plate with Birds and Inscriptions

1218

33.1 cm 8 cm

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With a lustrous shine that resembles the glisten of precious metals, this dish would have enhanced any elegant table of 13th-century Iran. Collected by the ruling and mercantile elite, lusterware was one of the most prestigious ceramics of the medieval Islamic world. The metal...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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