Bowl (900s): Art, History and Details

Bowl (900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The red earthenware body of this bowl is covered with buff slip, excluding the foot ring. A stylized bird, ornamental motifs, and border designs were done in purplish-brown, red, green, and yellow under a colorless clear glaze.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl
• Date: 900s
• Culture: Iran, Nishapur, Samanid Period, 10th Century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 11.5 x 28 cm (4 1/2 x 11 in.)
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1956.225

A detail from the museum

The spiral marks on the bowl's exterior and the symmetry indicate that it was shaped by throwing clay on a wheel.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• Milliken, William M. “Early Byzantine Silver.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 3 (March 1958): 35–94.
• Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Bacchantes in Islam.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 3 (March 1960): 43–49.

View the collection record

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