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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

13th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fritware bowl covered in a turquoise blue glaze and decorated in overglaze colours with gold (minai). The bowl is decorated with an enthroned ruler flanked by two attendants; the inner walls are covered in a wide band of palmette scrolls. An inscription in kufic script borders the inside rim, and on the outside an inscription in cursive includes a date of 640 AH / 1242 AD. However, this date is painted over the top of a plaster fill, and is therefore not original.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Fritware, polychrome inglaze and overglaze painted and gilded on opaque monochrome glaze (mina'i)
Brief description
Bowl, fritware, painted in colours with figures (mina'i ware); Iran (probably Kashan, 13th century.
Physical description
Fritware bowl covered in a turquoise blue glaze and decorated in overglaze colours with gold (minai). The bowl is decorated with an enthroned ruler flanked by two attendants; the inner walls are covered in a wide band of palmette scrolls. An inscription in kufic script borders the inside rim, and on the outside an inscription in cursive includes a date of 640 AH / 1242 AD. However, this date is painted over the top of a plaster fill, and is therefore not original.
Styles
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Lane, Arthur. Early Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 52p., ill. Page 43, plate 72A
Collection
Accession number
C.81-1918

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Record createdNovember 12, 2003
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