Luster Dish with Seated Prince (1170–1220): Art, History and Details

Luster Dish with Seated Prince (1170–1220) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Along with Basra in Iraq and Fustat (Old Cairo) in Egypt, Kashan served as a hub of Islamic ceramic production in northern Iran. This dish was likely produced in one of its workshops and is admired for its rare blue glaze design on a luster ground. Rulers and other court officials are commonly depicted on lusterware of this period.

Object facts

• Title: Luster Dish with Seated Prince
• Date: 1170–1220
• Culture: Iran, Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: fritware with luster-painted design
• Dimensions: Overall: 7.5 x 39 cm (2 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Islamic Art
• Department: Islamic Art
• Accession number: 1951.289

A detail from the museum

Around the dish's edge is a frieze of birds against an arabesque field.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Shepherd, Dorothy. "A Luster Bowl from Gurgan." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 9 (November 1957): 196–197.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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