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Bowl Depicting a Falconer and Four Pairs of Seated Figures

Arts of the Islamic World

MEDIUM Ceramic, Fritware, covered with a turquoise glaze with in-glaze and overglaze painting in red, green, blue, yellow, black, and gold
DATES 12th-13th century
DYNASTY Seljuq
PERIOD Seljuq Period
DIMENSIONS 3 11/16 x 8 1/4 in. (9.4 x 21 cm)  (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS ... مرا مهر توام ... لی نیست / جانـ... لی نیست / گر در ظلمه؟ همی رود بقصری؟ / یک لحظه ز خدمت تو دل خالی نیست / Read and transcribed by Dr. Abdullah Ghouchani, Winter 2014.
ACCESSION NUMBER 86.227.65
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Bowl Depicting a Falconer and Four Pairs of Seated Figures, 12th-13th century. Ceramic, Fritware, covered with a turquoise glaze with in-glaze and overglaze painting in red, green, blue, yellow, black, and gold, 3 11/16 x 8 1/4 in. (9.4 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.65. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.65_top_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE top, 86.227.65_top_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
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