Bowl with Splashes Maker: Unknown

9th–10th century

Asian Art

Not on view

The flowing blue and green lines on this bowl are a response to imported Chinese ceramics that were often decorated with splashed glazes in shades of white, green, and amber. The shape of the bowl and the use of an opaque white ground to cover the body also echo imported Chinese wares, in particular early porcelains traded to West Asia in the late eighth and ninth centuries C.E.

Medium

Earthenware splash-painted on opaque white glaze

Dimensions

2 3/4 × 10 in. (7 × 25.4 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1951.51.70

Geography

Iraq

Culture

Iraqi, Islamic

Period

Abbasid dynasty (750–1258)

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Rene Pottier Collection (named on Vignier label); Charles Vignier, dealer Paris (label #210.29); purchased by A. U. Pope in London for Mrs. William H. Moore, 1932; Asia Institute (NY exhibition lender) Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1951
Bibliography
  • Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institue, 1940), 146, label MWH19
  • Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), pl. 471
  • Maurice Pezard, La ceramique archaique de l'Islam et ses origines, 2 vols. (Paris: E. Leroux, 1920),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

Inscriptions

Writing rendered illegible after firing

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