Bowl (early 1600s): Art, History and Details

Bowl (early 1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Sprigs of flowers flowing from little tufts of grass decorate the inside of this bowl. Its sides are divided into panels by thin black lines. The outside is divided into two bands of decoration: above are scale-like motifs formed by black lines worked in with blue and below are arabesques with simple leaves in cobalt blue, copper green, and red-brown.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl
• Date: early 1600s
• Culture: Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Fritware with underglaze design in colored slips, Kubachi ware
• Dimensions: Overall: 27 x 10.6 cm (10 5/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1915.582

A detail from the museum

This type of pottery is named after a town in the Caucasus region, but likely most Kubachi wares were made in northwestern Iran.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

View the collection record

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