Bowl with Inscribed Poem

Object Details

• Description

  Small bowl with flaring sides, straight rim, low foot.

  Clay: hard white, porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent greenish.

  Decoration: overglaze painted in white, blue, red and gold. For details, see Comments 2 and 3.

• Inscriptions

  (Wheeler Thackston, Harvard University, Summer 1980) Inscription, in so-called "Olga-Bolga Turkish," (Note that the nasta'liq script is definitely not Iranian; most likely Central Asian):

  Ketur, saqi, qadah kim bag u sahra lalazar oldi/'Ajab fasl-i xujasta mawsim u xus ruzgar oldi/Acildi qunca tumari u ma'lum oldi mazmuni/Budur kim fawt qilmang mawsim-i-gul jam-i-gulguni.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1950s, 1850s

• Topic

  Art, Qajar period (1779 - 1925), Arts of the Islamic World, Poetry, Ceramics

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)