Shallow Bowl Decorated with a Royal Figure or Angel
901-933
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Shallow Bowl Decorated with a Royal Figure or Angel
901-933
Physical Qualities
Earthenware with yellow, black and green glazes, 2 1/8 H x 9 1/4 Diam. in. (5.4 x 23.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.175
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. Humans, and sometimes angels, decorate slip-painted Nishapur earthenwares of the 9th–11th centuries when figural representation was acceptable for domestic settings where it appeared on vessels and even wall murals.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1963); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Extended Loans IN
Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections
Marilyn Jenkins, "Islamic Pottery A Brief History," "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bullegin, Spring 1983, no. 6, p. 9.
Géza Fehérvári, "Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum," London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000, pp. 50-53.
Géza Fehérvári, "Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum," London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000, pp. 50-53.
