Bowl

Description

Footed bowl of stonepaste fritware painted in black under a transparent turquoise alkaline glaze and showing a bold naskhi inscription: Syria, Raqqa, Ayyubid, late 5th - early 6th century AH / late 12th - early 13th century AD

Museum reference

A.1976.342

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Bowl

Production information

ar-Raqqah, Euphrates Province, Syria, West Asia

Date

Late 12th - early 13th century
Late 5th - early 6th century AH

Style / Culture

Ayyubid

Materials

Stonepaste fritware, Glaze

Physical description

Stonepaste fritware

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Discover Islamic Art (01 Dec 2005)
  World Wide Web

References

LANE, A., Islamic Pottery from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries A.D. in the collection of Sir Eldred Hitchcock, London 1956, fig. 32, no. 68 (illustrated)

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

national museum of scotland »
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