Bowl
BackDescription:
Bowl. With a ceramic stone-paste body decorated with a black and white slip design featuring two phoenixes amongst foliage.
Object type: | bowl |
Museum number: | G.280 |
Culture/period: | Islamic |
Date: | 14thC |
Production place: | Made in: Iran |
Findspot: | Found/Acquired: Iran |
Materials: | pottery |
Technique: | painted |
Dimensions: | Diameter: 7.50 cm (base) Diameter: 18.60 cm (rim) Height: 9.50 cm |
Location: | 11 |
Subjects: | bird, phoenix |
Acquisition names: | Bequeathed by: Miss Edith Godman |
Acquisition date: | 1983 |
Curator's comments:
Ceramic bowl with phoenixes Iran, 14th century So-called ‘Sultanabad ware’ made of a stone-paste ceramic body and decorated with a black and white slip-painted design of two phoenixes amongst foliage. Godman Bequest, G.280 Further reading: Priscilla Soucek, "Ceramic Production as Exemplar of Yuan-Ilkhanid Relations." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 35 (1999): 125-41.
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