Bowl (early 1200s): Art, History and Details
Bowl at the Cleveland Museum of Art: early 1200s, fritware with underglaze-painted design. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bowl (early 1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This fritware bowl has wide flaring sides and a high foot. The decoration on the inside consists of a four-lobed device at center, surrounded by two circles. The inside walls carry a three-part design, with three oval motifs alternating with three squarish panels. Each panel contains an Arabic word.
Object facts
- Title: Bowl
- Date: early 1200s
- Culture: Syria (Raqqa), Ayyubid Period
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: fritware with underglaze-painted design
- Dimensions: Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Department: Islamic Art
- Accession number: 1915.639
A detail from the museum
The inside of the bowl contains saggar spurs.
Collection credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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