Bowl with an Arabic Inscription Reading “God is Perfect”

10th century C.E.

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

The inscription on the inside of this bowl states, “God is perfect.”

Medium: Earthenware painted on white slip under clear glaze
Dimensions: 2 3/16 × 4 7/16 in. (5.6 × 11.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Fred Olsen
Accession Number: 1954.53.14
Geography: Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Culture: Uzbeki, Islamic
Period: Samanid dynasty (819–999 C.E.)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), Guilford, Conn.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1954

Bibliography

James Prosek and Edith Devaney, James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2020), 46, 153, pl. 30.

Kishwar Rizvi, "Islamic Art at the Yale University Art Gallery," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018): 98, fig. 6.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

"Subhanallah" in Arabic. سبحان الله‎‎ \r\nGlory be to God or God is Perfect

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