Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Flat dish with flat relief decoration of interlacing ribbons decorated with split palmettos in 4 places. Glazed clay. Paste: cream. Glaze: golden luster.

  Decoration: molded with overglaze green splashes.

  Covered with now partially deteriorated goldlustered lead glaze with eight green spots of varied intensity. Repaired.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation (December 4, 2004 to July 17, 2005)

  Islamic Art (May 9, 1993 to June 3, 1997)

  Near Eastern Ceramics (May 10, 1985 to September 3, 1985)

  Near Eastern Ceramics (June 24, 1982 to September 23, 1982)

  Near Eastern Ceramics (May 14, 1981 to May 10, 1985)

  Art of the Arab World (August 15, 1980 to May 13, 1981)

  Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)

  Ceramics from the World of Islam (January 16, 1974 to July 1, 1974)

  Near Eastern Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to February 10, 1972)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 6 and 7 (February 25, 1956 to April 10, 1962)

• Origin

  Iraq

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s, 700s, 1100s, 1200s, 1000s

• Topic

  Art, Pottery, Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims, Abbasids, Iraqis

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)