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Bowl
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About this work
This deep bowl with a wide flat rim is coated with a pale sea-green glaze. The interior is divided into three triangular sections by a simple foliate pattern. Within each triangle, a seated figure holding a cup is reserved in splashes of chocolate-colored luster. The rim is decorated with 15 panels containing freely painted dots and strokes, which suggest highly abstracted script.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl, late 1100s–early 1200s. Ayyubid Syria, Rusapha. Fritware with luster-painted design; overall: 10.2 x 36 cm (4 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.75
