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Bowl with Prince on Horseback
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Bowl with Prince on Horseback

Object Name: Bowl
Date: 12th–13th century
Geography: Iran
Culture: Islamic
Medium: Stonepaste; applied decoration, polychrome inglaze and overglaze painted and gilded on opaque monochrome glaze (mina'i)
Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm) Diam. 8 9/16 in. (21.7cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951
Accession Number: 51.53
On view in Gallery 453
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Mina'i production, like luster painting, was expensive and labor-intensive because of the double‑firing involved. For added luxurious effect, potters sometimes applied gilded scrolls in relief, as on this bowl. The theme of a prince on horseback—an image of courtly life widely exploited by Seljuq ceramists—is treated here in a "monumental" style.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: On the exterior in Kufic script a word like الدو repeated many times.
    On the interior the inscription is a poem in Persian in Naskhi script Persian poem:

    در راه تو دل چه جان سپاری که نکرد در کشتن من با تو چه یاری که نکرد
    دانستی که چه جور برد عشقم با تو انصاف تو هیچ یاد داری که نکرد
    A.Ghouchani

  • Provenance

    [ L. Raffy, Inc., before 1938]; [ Dikran G. Kelekian; New York, until 1951; sold to MMA]

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