Dumbarton Oaks - Bowl with Exterior Stripes

Bowl with Exterior Stripes

Islamic
first half of the 14th century
12.07 cm x 26.67 cm x 26.67 cm (4 3/4 in. x 10 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in.)
ceramic
BZ.1916.1

Not on view

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Additional Images

Interior

Three-quarter view

Exterior

Interior

Exterior

Description

This Faience has a decoration of stylized ornament, using blue, green, and black glazes for stripes on white ground. Most of the interior of the deep bowl is divided by vertical lines into thin sections, within which vegetal forms appear. The exterior features pairs of vertical lines.

Bibliography

R. Ettinghausen, Near Eastern Pottery of the Muslim Period in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (unpublished manuscript), [Princeton, 1937], no. 7.

Exhibition History

Dumbarton Oaks, "The Collector's Microbe: Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss and the Dumbarton Oaks Collections," Apr. 9 - Nov. 9, 2008.

Acquisition History

Purchased at Vente de Guerre, Paris by Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, 1916 - November 29, 1940;

Gifted to Harvard University, November 29, 1940;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, DC

Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023