Fragment of Dish
Not on view
This earthenware fragment, attributed to Syria or Egypt, was slipped and painted in dark brown to create a triangular medallion at the center of the vessel before it was coated with a transparent colorless glaze. Such underglaze painting traditions in Syria were crucial to the development of the signature underglaze-painted stonepaste wares of the 12th century onwards.
The fragment came to the Museum as early as 1913, before the establishment of a dedicated department of Islamic Art.
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