Bowl
Polychrome techniques of underglaze painting were a speciatlity of the Kashan workshops. The intimate way in which the figures seem to interact with each other may indicate a scene from a romance or epic. Poetry is framing the inner and the outer rim.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bowl
- Date: late 12th–early 13th century
- Geography: Attributed to iran, Kashan
- Medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1968
- Object Number: 68.223.5
- Curatorial Department: Islamic Art
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dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE
late 12th century
first half 14th century
early 13th century
late 12th–early 13th century
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