Public Domain

Foliate Bowl

1100

Scroll

Foliate Bowl

1100

Physical Qualities Fritware with thick white glaze over white slip, 1 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (4.8 x 14.9 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin

Object Number 2013.187

According to written accounts confirmed by archaeological finds, imported Chinese ceramics were widely available throughout the Abbasid period (749–1055). Potters in Iraq and Iran imitated Chinese white stoneware by covering their 9th–10th century buff or red earthenware with white slip. During the 12th–14th century, potters in Iran rediscovered or revived an ancient Egyptian process of making a ceramic body predominantly of silica-rich quartz rather than clay as used inChina. This material, called fritware or stonepaste, produced a harder and more durable ceramic body compared to the earthenwares.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); 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
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-