Bowl with Two Birds (900s): Art, History and Details
Bowl with Two Birds at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 900s, earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bowl with Two Birds (900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Two facing birds painted with dark brown slip (clay diluted with water) on a plain white slip ground were a popular decoration in eastern Iran. A stylized Arabic word, baraka (blessing), appears on each bird’s body.
Object facts
- Title: Bowl with Two Birds
- Date: 900s
- Culture: Iran, Nishapur or Central Asia, Samarkand, Samanid Period, 10th century
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration
- Dimensions: Overall: 7.6 x 25 cm (3 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Department: Islamic Art
- Accession number: 1969.300
Collection credit
Gift of George P. Bickford
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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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