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Bowl with a flying bird
Samanid or Buyid period
9th–10th century
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Earthenware, cream-colored slip with brown
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 7.4 × 20.1 cm (2 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.768
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-thrown body; high foot ring. Brown flying bird motif applied with a brush over cream-colored slip, unglazed
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)