Footed Bowl (late 1100s–early 1200s): Art, History and Details

Footed Bowl (late 1100s–early 1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Iranian potters created transparency by piercing and glazing frit-body walls. Here, triangles and rosettes decorate incised scallops beneath the blue rim. The footed shape is derived from Iranian metal bowls.

Object facts

• Title: Footed Bowl
• Date: late 1100s–early 1200s
• Culture: Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period, late 12-early 13th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: fritware, pierced and underglaze painting
• Dimensions: Overall: 9.8 x 18.2 cm (3 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1915.581

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Pope, Arthur Upham, and Theodore Bestermann. 1938. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. Edited by Phyllis Ackerman. London: Oxford University Press.
• Lane, Arthur. 1947. Early Islamic Pottery: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber.
• Atil, Esin, and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (3 : 1973 : Washington, D.C.). 1973. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition / Freer Gallery of Art, 3. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

View the collection record

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