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Source Description
This deep bowl with a wide flat rim is coated with a pale sea-green glaze. The interior is divided into three triangular sections by a simple foliate pattern. Within each triangle, a seated figure holding a cup is reserved in splashes of chocolate-colored luster. The rim is decorated with 15 panels containing freely painted dots and strokes, which suggest highly abstracted script.
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Document identity
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124072
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Bowl
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Source metadata
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124072
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object
title
Bowl
description
This deep bowl with a wide flat rim is coated with a pale sea-green glaze. The interior is divided into three triangular sections by a simple foliate pattern. Within each triangle, a seated figure holding a cup is reserved in splashes of chocolate-colored luster. The rim is decorated with 15 panels containing freely painted dots and strokes, which suggest highly abstracted script.
date
late 1100s–early 1200s
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79901715
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 10.2 x 36 cm (4 x 14 3/16 in.)
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Ayyubid Syria, Rusapha
accession
1944.75
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fritware with luster-painted design
tombstone
Bowl, late 1100s–early 1200s. Ayyubid Syria, Rusapha. Fritware with luster-painted design; overall: 10.2 x 36 cm (4 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.75
collection
Islamic Art
inscriptions
inscription
Rim decoration may represent highly abstracted scripts but there are no legible words.
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inscription
Label on bowl reads: "Parish-Watson & Co., Inc./ Old Chinese Porcelains / 44 E. 57th St., NY, NY"
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2
didYouKnow
Fritware approximates the appearance of porcelain. Potters made a paste of ground quartz, clay, and glass, which when fired, created a compact white material closely resembling precious porcelain.
citations
citation
Dimand, Maurice Sven. <em>Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI</em>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 170, p. 39; Reproduced: no. 170 [unpaginated]
citation
Dimand, Maurice Sven. <em>Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI</em>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 170, p. 39
citation
Anderson Galleries, New York. <em>The V. Everit Macy Collection : Including Rare and Important Persian and Mesopotamian Pottery, Persian and Indian Miniatures, Persian Brocades and Velvet Carpets</em>. January 6–8, 1938 Sale.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: lot. 492, pp. 128–129
citation
Hollis, Howard. “Two Near Eastern Lustered Bowls.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 9 (November 1944): 158–163 and inside cover.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 158–160; Reproduced: inside cover [unpaginated]
citation
Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 28
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:23:46.035000
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124072
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Islamic Art
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Islamic Art
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fritware with luster-painted design
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