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Bowl with quadruped, flying birds, and lotus flowers
Ilkhanid period
14th century
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with black and blue painted under transparent glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 9.7 × 21.5 cm (3 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.745
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CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-thrown body, thin walls; high foot. Interior: four cartouches with lotus flowers interspersed with four birds in flight around the cavetto; running quadruped with speckled body and four vertical lines (possibly a potter's mark) in the well; overall foliage, trefoil-shaped leaves. Exterior: cream ground, black dots and thin lines with blue dabs applied with a brush; wave band with thick outer compass lines near the foot
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)