Bowl with a Spiral Pattern Artist: Unknown

late 12th–early 13th Century

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

The development of new types of clay bodies in Syria in the tenth century C.E. was a response to the introduction of high-fired stonewares and porcelains from China. Made with a combination of clay, silica, and ground glass, or frit, stonepaste was widely used throughout the Islamic world. This bowl illustrates a type of ceramic known as Raqqa ware, which is named for a town in northeast Syria where some of the workshops that produced these ceramics were located. Examples were also found in Turkey and Egypt.

Medium

Stonepaste with black pigment under turquoise glaze (Raqqa ware)

Dimensions

2 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (7 × 27.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of David M. Levitt, B.A. 1938

Accession Number

1958.63.5

Geography

Syria

Culture

Syrian, Islamic

Period

Ayyubid period (ca. 1171–1260)

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Parish-Watson Collection No. 7, Fig 30; David M. Levitt Collection V.24 New York, NY; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1958
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bowls (vessels)

Signed

n.s.

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