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Artist:
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Artist Unknown
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Title:
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Bowl
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Date:
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Ilkhanid period
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Medium:
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Earthenware with underglaze-painted decor, Sultanabad ware
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Dimensions:
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4 x 7 3/8 in. (10.16 x 18.73 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 243
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The decorative technique represented by this bowl exemplifies a group of wares from the Ilkhanid period (1220-1336) typically associated with the Sultanabad area in Iran. The brown floral and bird motifs are painted in thick white slip (engobe) with black outlines and bluish-green touches under a transparent glaze. The white dots are a typical Sultanabad motif, and molded kufic script encircles the outside rim.
Object Description
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Classification:
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Ceramic
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Physical Description:
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Bowl, deep funnel-shaped, on high flaring foot, and with inward curving rim. Brownish earthenware. Decorations inside consist of all-over floral designs in brown and white, with white dots on brown ground (typical Sultanabad motif) with splash of bluish green in center, and at one side wave-like design in blue with four blue fish in low relief Cufic characters in blue and brown; body decorated with conventionalized elliptic designs in brown on white. The whole covered with yellow glaze. Broken and mended.
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Persia (Iran), Sultanabad
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Accession #:
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32.32.9
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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