2002.50.63: Bowl with Black Foliate Arabesque and Pseudo-Inscription
VesselsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.50.63
- Title
- Bowl with Black Foliate Arabesque and Pseudo-Inscription
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 12th-13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Seljuk-Atabeg period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/165478
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Fritware painted in black (chromium) under turquoise (copper) transparent alkali glaze
- Technique
- Underglazed, painted
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 19.8 cm (2 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood, Belmont, MA (by 1974-2002), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2002.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.50.63
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- At the center of this bowl, a freely painted, leafy arabesque grows out of a six-lobed core. Around the walls a rhythmic pseudo-epigraphic band radiates upward, and triangular dabs of black ring the rim. On the exterior, willow-reed motifs alternate with pairs of tapering, vertical stripes. At some point in the past, this bowl was reassembled from fragments and overpainted to integrate the plaster fills. The turquoise glaze covers the interior and exterior, stopping well short of the foot ring, which has an unusual taper.
Published Catalogue Text: In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art , written 2013
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Bowl with black foliate arabesque and pseudo-inscription
Iran, Seljuk-Atabeg period, 12th–13th century
Fritware painted in black (chromium) under turquoise (copper) transparent alkali glaze
7.4 × 19.8 cm (2 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
2002.50.63
At the center of this bowl, a freely painted, leafy arabesque grows out of a six-lobed core. Around the walls a rhythmic pseudo-epigraphic band radiates upward, and triangular dabs of black ring the rim. On the exterior, willow-reed motifs alternate with pairs of tapering, vertical stripes.
At some point in the past, this bowl was reassembled from fragments and overpainted to integrate the plaster fills. The turquoise glaze covers the interior and exterior, stopping well short of the foot ring, which has an unusual taper.
Mary McWilliams
Publication History
- Mary McWilliams, ed., In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2013), p. 186, cat. 25, ill.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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