Sweetmeat Dish

NEP14

From: Iran | Rayy

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number NEP14
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cufic
Provenience Iran | Rayy
Date Made 1100-1199 CE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Technique Glazed
Inscription Language Kufic
Description

Adjillchori. Seven cavaties, silicious glaze, brown metallic lustre. Iranian figures in Sasanid dynasty style. Kufic inscription.

Sweetmeat dish with seven depressions decorated in brown metallic lustre. The central depression and three others are decorated with an Arabesque motif. The other three contain figures. The inner rim of each depression bears a Persian verse written in stylized cufic script.

Ackerman: Gallery IV, Table Case 59, Object B-Sweat-Meat Dish. 12th � 13th Century.

In top, seven small hemispherical basins, four filled with arabesques; in each of remaining, seated couple against scrolls in interspaces, larger against smaller scrolls; outside, broad foliation in white on lustre; lustre brownish.

Diameter: 14 in.

Height 11 cm
Outside Diameter 35.56 cm
Credit Line Purchased from H. Kevorkian, 1915
Other Number Getz 294 - Other Number

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