<em>Bowl with Peacock Motif</em>, ca. 1200–1230. Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster on a transparent glaze with touches of cobalt blue under the glaze, 4 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (10.5 x 36 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden, 78.81. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 78.81_PS11.jpg)

Bowl with Peacock Motif, ca. 1200–1230. Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster on a transparent glaze with touches of cobalt blue under the glaze, 4 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (10.5 x 36 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden, 78.81. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 78.81_PS11.jpg)

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Bowl with Peacock Motif

Arts of the Islamic World

On View: Arts of the Islamic World, 2nd floor

Wasters, or ceramic products damaged during the firing process and therefore discarded as waste near the original kilns. Excavations by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in 1906 and 1908, by chance conducted near the thirteenth-century kilns, most likely exposed the buried wasters.

MEDIUM Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster on a transparent glaze with touches of cobalt blue under the glaze

Place Made: Raqqa, Syria

DATES ca. 1200–1230

DYNASTY Ayyubid

PERIOD Ayyubid

DIMENSIONS 4 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (10.5 x 36 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Islamic World

ACCESSION NUMBER 78.81

CREDIT LINE Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden

PROVENANCE Prior to 1978, provenance not yet documented; May 1978, purchased at Sotheby's New York "Antiquities and Islamic Art", lot 251, by Carl L. Selden and Florence Barstock Selden (Mrs. Carl L. Selden); June 14, 1978, gift of Carl L. Selden and Florence Barstock Selden to the Brooklyn Museum.

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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Arts of the Islamic World, 2nd floor

CAPTION Bowl with Peacock Motif, ca. 1200–1230. Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster on a transparent glaze with touches of cobalt blue under the glaze, 4 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (10.5 x 36 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden, 78.81. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 78.81_PS11.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 78.81_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2022

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