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Bowl with incised decoration
10th century
Medium/Technique
Earthenware, white slip with incised decoration and polychrome glazes
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 11.2 × 29.9 cm (4 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.760
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-thrown body; shallow foot ring. Interior: decoration incised into white slip (sgraffiato), then colored with yellow, green, and manganese brown glazes; encircling petal-like cartouches filled with colored glazes around the cavetto; well decorated with a double cross in green and yellow with brown dots and lobes; rim, cavetto, and well separated by multiple compass lines, some with light brown cross hatching. Exterior: green-tinted glaze over opaque white slip on upper walls with loosely-written inscription in brown
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)