CC0 · no rights reserved
Bowl with Geometric Designs
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This inlaid bowl has interlacing geometric designs in 12 arched panels that radiate from a star on the base. A pinwheel of six fish is engraved in the interior. Scholars recently reattributed them to Islamic manufacture, possibly for export to Europe.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with Geometric Designs, 1450–1500. Syria, Damascus, Burji Mamluk period, 15th Century. Sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold; diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.133
