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Bowl with Motif Based on The Kufic Word for Happiness

901-999

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Bowl with Motif Based on The Kufic Word for Happiness

901-999

Physical Qualities Earthenware with white, brown, green and red slip glazes, 7.3 x 19.5 cm. (2 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from John Erikson Collection
Object Number 1956.216
Interior with abstract design
The Baltimore Museum of Art by exchange with J .J. Klejman, New York, 1956
Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections
Fehérvári, Géza. 2000. Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum.London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, pp. 55-59.
Cf. bowl with similar decorative theme see No. 58 CER 142TSR (p. 59). Ref. on polychrome on white wares

Watson, Oliver. 2004. Ceramics from Islamic Lands.London: Thames & Hudsonp. 243-245
Cf. Cat. Gg.1 (p. 243) Ref. on provincial slipware

Wilkinson, C.. 1974. Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period.New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cf. form 18.3 (p 164) but here decoration on coloured engobe. Ref. on polychrome slip painting

Fehervari, Geza. 1973. Islamic Pottery. A comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection.London: Faber & Faberp., 52-57
Cf. similar bowl see No. 35 (Plate 18c, p. 57). Ref.

Wilkinson, C.. The Glazed Pottery of Nishapur and Samarkand.New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source Title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 20 3 (Nov-1961)
p. 102-115
Cf. near identical bowl in Fig. 2. Ref.

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