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{
    "localId": "107181",
    "label": "Bowl with Griffin",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "107181",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Griffin",
    "description": "Animated animals, such as this griffin, and robust palmette scrolls characterize the bold designs that often appear on dark manganese backgrounds in Garrus ware, from northwestern Iran.",
    "date": "1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1182",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60757067"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1182/1925.1182_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1182/1925.1182_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1182/1925.1182_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.6 x 16.7 cm (2 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Northwest Iran, Garrus district, Seljuk period, 12th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1925.1182"
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{
    "tec": "earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Griffin, 1100s. Northwest Iran, Garrus district, Seljuk period, 12th century. Earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration; overall: 6.6 x 16.7 cm (2 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1925.1182",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Arabic letters in floriated Kufic on griffon's hip (ta or sad?) and above his back (kaf?).",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pope, Arthur Upham. <em>An Introduction to Persian Art since the Seventh Century A.D</em>. London: P. Davies, 1930.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 68; Reproduced: fig. 23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. <em>A survey of Persian art</em>. London: Oxford, 1938–39.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 1533; Reproduced: Vol. V, pl. 616b"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ackerman, Phyllis. <em>Guide to the exhibition of Persian art</em>. New York: Iranian Institute, 1940.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 164, case 21, E"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lane, Arthur. <em>Early Islamic pottery; Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia</em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 26"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, and Mario Bussagli. <em>Mostra d'arte iranica. Exhibition of Iranian art. Roma, Palazzo Brancaccio, giugno-agosto, 1956. Catalogo. Catalogue</em>. Milano: \"Silvana\" editoriale d'arte, 1956.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 222; Reproduced: no. 330"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 697",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n127"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Masteller, Kimberly. \"Arthur Upham Pope and Collecting Persian Art for Kansas City.\" In <em>Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art. </em>Yuka Kadoi, ed., 267–268. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 267–268, no. 2"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1182",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:45:49.270000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1182/1925.1182_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 107181,
    "dept": "Islamic Art",
    "coll": "Islamic Art",
    "med": "earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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