2014.513: Ceramic bowl
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.513
- Title
- Ceramic bowl
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Morocco, Fez
- Period
- 'Alawid period
- Culture
- Moroccan
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351439
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red earthenware with painting over opaque glaze
- Dimensions
- 12" diameter, 6" height
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Galerie Al Badii, Marrakech, (by 2001)], sold; to William A. McClung, Richmond, VA (2001-2014), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of William Alexander McClung, Ph.D. 1972
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.513
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This conical bowl with high foot ring and rounded sides conforms to a type of Moroccan vessel referred to as a mokhfia, which was used to serve couscous. On the interior, the design is traced in brown, then filled in with a grayish blue, pale yellow, and emerald green. From a yellow circle at the center, the radial pattern extends to the rim; it features six pointed lobes containing stylized pomegranates on swaying stalks. Each pomegranate bears a multi-petaled flower. On the exterior, a wide border along the rim is filled with a loosely painted zigzag.
Publication History
- Carlo Venturini, La Faenza dell’Islam: Le ceramiche di Fès (Milan, 1991), pp. 43-45, illustrated p. 45
Verification Level
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