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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.
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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
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