Bowl with calligraphy

12th century

Object PlaceIran

Medium/TechniqueFritware (stonepaste), white slip with molded and carved decoration under turquoise-tinted glaze

DimensionsHeight x diameter: 17.2 × 24.6 cm (6 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)

Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes

Accession number31.935

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ClassificationsCeramics

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ProvenanceProbably acquired in Iran by Ayoub Rabenou, Paris; July, 1931, sold by Rabenou to Arthur Upham Pope (b. 1881 - d. 1969), Paris, for the MFA. (Accession Date: December 3, 1931)

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