Islamic Bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Bowl

Date: 12th–13th century

Geography: Iran, Rayy

Medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

Dimensions: 3 1/8 x 7 1/16 in. (7.9 x 17.9 cm)

Classification: Ceramics

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1963

Accession Number: 63.158.1

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1400...

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This bowl shows a characteristic feature of lusterware from Kashan- figures in reserve on a luster ground- which supports the theory that Fatimid potters, who favored this device, migrated to Iran and Syria after the fall of the Egyptian dynasty in 1171,

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.