Bowl Decorated with Pseudo Kufic Script and Bird in Center
901-999
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with white slip decoration on black glaze, 3 1/8 H x 9 3/4 Diam. in. (7.9 x 24.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.181
Nishapur was a trading and manufacturing city located in eastern Iran’s Khorasan province on the ancient trade route known today as the Silk Road. Script was a popular feature of decorative objects made in the city. However, the white band on this black bowl is purely decorative, only an allusion to the power of the written word.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1963); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019
