Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: sandy, buff-white.

  Glaze: silicious, transparent greenish-white; areas of a pearly iridescence due to decay.

  Decoration: painted in brown lustre; spots of turquoise-green; inscriptions in naskhi, partly obliterated.

• Origin

  Syria

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1300s, 1200s

• Topic

  Art, Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims, Ayyubids, Syrians

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes