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

Bowl

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

Bowl of buff earthenware painted with blue and greenish-black with touches of manganese purple. Flattened hemispherical shape with a small foot. Painted in the middle in a circular panel edged with black with the a figure of a hare in blue running left amidst frond-like foliage in blue, black and purple. Wide border of radiating triple blue lines and groups of black dots. Outside are radiating double lines alternately blue and black, and a narrow border of black herring-bone pattern.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Bowl of buff earthenware painted with enamels
Brief description
Bowl of buff earthenware painted with enamels, Iran, 13th century.
Physical description
Bowl of buff earthenware painted with blue and greenish-black with touches of manganese purple. Flattened hemispherical shape with a small foot. Painted in the middle in a circular panel edged with black with the a figure of a hare in blue running left amidst frond-like foliage in blue, black and purple. Wide border of radiating triple blue lines and groups of black dots. Outside are radiating double lines alternately blue and black, and a narrow border of black herring-bone pattern.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.1cm
  • Diameter: 11.4cm
Style
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Lane, Arthur. Early Islamic Pottery. London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 52p., ill. p. 46, plate 96A
Collection
Accession number
C.120-1931

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Record createdNovember 18, 2003
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