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Asian Art
Public domain

Bowl

8th century

Earthenware painted with lustre on white slip (Samarra type)

2 1/16 × 4 5/16 in. (5.2 × 10.9 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1951.51.19
Geography: 
Geography Iraq
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Iraqi, Islamic
Period: 
Abbasid dynasty (750–1258)
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Moore Collection #207; Asia Institute; Arthur Pope -- Phyllis Ackerman Collection (catalogue for 1940 exhibition)

Bibliography: 

Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, 2, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institue, 1940), 155, no. 14c.

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