Bowl with Kufic Inscription
801-900
Scroll
Bowl with Kufic Inscription
801-900
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with dark blue and white glazes, 1 7/8 H x 6 Diam. in. (4.8 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.156
The shape of this bowl closely copied 9th-century bowls China exported to Iraq and Iran, but the blue decoration and pure white ground of the Chinese originals was not replicated.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Extended Loans IN
Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections
Asian Gallery Rotations 2023
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Anthony Welch, "Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World," Austin: University of Texas Press (in cooperation with The Asia Society, NY), 1979.
Géza Fehérvári, "Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum," London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000, pp. 37-38.
"Earthenware, Ceramics and Tiles at the Smithsonian Museum," Smithsonian Museum of Asian Arts, 1/20/2011 [http://islamic-arts.org/2011/smithsonian-museums-ceramic-collection/] (S1997.109)
"Epigraphy iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia," "Encyclopaedia Iranica," 7/10/2017 [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-iii]
Géza Fehérvári, "Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum," London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000, pp. 37-38.
"Earthenware, Ceramics and Tiles at the Smithsonian Museum," Smithsonian Museum of Asian Arts, 1/20/2011 [http://islamic-arts.org/2011/smithsonian-museums-ceramic-collection/] (S1997.109)
"Epigraphy iii. Arabic inscriptions in Persia," "Encyclopaedia Iranica," 7/10/2017 [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-iii]
On View at the BMA
