Dumbarton Oaks - Mina'i Ware Beaker

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Mina'i Ware Beaker

Islamic
12th century - 13th century
12.5 cm x 12.1 cm x 12.1 cm (4 15/16 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in.)
ceramic
BZ.1921.2

Not on view

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Description

This Mina'i-ware Beaker has polychrome decoration of four horsemen, with a frieze of complicated Kufic inscription above at the rim and in Nashki writing below. An undecorated foot provides a base.

Bibliography

R. Ettinghausen, Near Eastern Pottery of the Muslim Period in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (unpublished manuscript), [Princeton, 1937], no. 3.

Exhibition History

Dumbarton Oaks, "The Collector's Microbe: Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss and the Dumbarton Oaks Collections," Apr. 9, 2008 - Nov. 10, 2008.

Acquisition History

Purchased from the dealer Georges Joseph Demotte (1877–1923), Paris, by Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, 1921 - November 29, 1940;

Gifted to Harvard University, November 29, 1940;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 11/4/2024