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Bowl with plant motif
Mongol period
14th century
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with polychrome decoration under transparent glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 6.3 × 14.7 cm (2 1/2 × 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.926
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-thrown body, thin walls; shallow foot ring. Exterior: runny blue and turquoise design around the outer rim, free-drawn dark line above the foot ring. Interior: stippling around rim, painted ribbing, base with plant motif in reserve, slightly obscured by iridescence
ProvenanceProbably acquired in Iran by Ayoub Rabenou, Paris; July, 1931, sold by Rabenou to Arthur Upham Pope (b. 1881 - d. 1969), Paris, for the MFA. (Accession Date: December 3, 1931)