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Vessel with turquoise-tinted glaze
14th century
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip under turquoise-tinted glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 8 × 18.8 cm (3 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.923
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionConvex-shaped, narrow mouth; six ribs carved into clay body prior to application of slip and turquoise-tinted glaze; one unglazed boss on each lobed shoulder
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)