Bowl
BackDescription:
Bowl. Fritware (stonepaste), covered with a white glaze, then in-glaze painted in turquoise and blue and overglaze painted in red and black. Depicting enthroned royal figure and four attendants with visitor in a garden with trees, birds and pond. Persian inscription painted below the figures with second inscription painted on the exterior rim. Stylised ornamentation on outer body. High foot-ring,
Object type: | bowl |
Museum number: | 1945,1017.261 |
Culture/period: | Seljuq dynasty |
Date: | 1187 (Muharram (March-April) 583 AH) |
Production place: | Made in: Kashan |
Materials: | pottery |
Technique: | slipped, glazed |
Dimensions: | Height: 9.50 cm Diameter: 21.00 cm (rim) Diameter: 8.80 cm (base) Height: 0.90 cm (base) |
Inscriptions: | Inscription details: inscription (just below pool on interior and around rim of bowl) in Persian in naskh script Inscription quoted: Inscription note: Poetic inscriptions, partially restored and retouched. |
Location: | 7 |
Exhibition history: | Exhibited: 2005 Jan-Apr, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 'Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years', cat. no. 45 2000 12 Jun-17 Sept, St Petersburg, The Hermitage 'In the name of the beneficent and merciful' 1999-2000 15 Dec-24 Apr, Amsterdam, De Nieuwe Kerk Museum, 'In the name of the beneficent and merciful' |
Subjects: | ruler |
Acquisition names: | Bequeathed by: Oscar Charles Raphael |
Acquisition date: | 1945 |
Curator's comments:
This bowl has been attributed to the artist Abu Zayd, who is known to have made two other bowls with the same iconography, also inscribed with poetry and dated 1186-87 AD (583 AH). Further reading: 'Turks: A journey of a thousand years, 600-1600', edited by David J. Roxburgh (London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2005), cat. 45, pp. 88-89 and 388. - Survey of Persian Art, pl. 688
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