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Source Description
This inlaid bowl has interlacing geometric designs in 12 arched panels that radiate from a star on the base. A pinwheel of six fish is engraved in the interior. Scholars recently reattributed them to Islamic manufacture, possibly for export to Europe.
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124138
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Bowl with Geometric Designs
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object
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124138
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object
title
Bowl with Geometric Designs
description
This inlaid bowl has interlacing geometric designs in 12 arched panels that radiate from a star on the base. A pinwheel of six fish is engraved in the interior. Scholars recently reattributed them to Islamic manufacture, possibly for export to Europe.
date
1450–1500
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en
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Q60759202
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Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)
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Syria, Damascus, Burji Mamluk period, 15th Century
accession
1945.133
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sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold
tombstone
Bowl with Geometric Designs, 1450–1500. Syria, Damascus, Burji Mamluk period, 15th Century. Sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold; diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.133
collection
Islamic Art
didYouKnow
The bowl's decorative panels contain six different geometric designs, each appearing twice, in opposing panels.
citations
citation
The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
page_number
N5245
citation
Foote, Helen. "Venetian Bronze Bowl Inlaid with Silver and Gold." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>33, no. 7 (September 1946): 143-144.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 144; Reproduced: p. 147.
citation
Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 20, p. 116; Reproduced: p. 52
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 11:27:00.782000
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124138
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Islamic Art
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Islamic Art
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sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold
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