Bowl with Peacock Motif
ca. 1200–1230
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Object Label
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.
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. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Collection
Collection
Title
Bowl with Peacock Motif
Date
ca. 1200–1230
Dynasty
Ayyubid
Period
Ayyubid
Geography
Place made: Raqqa, Syria
Medium
Ceramic; fritware, painted in luster on a transparent glaze with touches of cobalt blue under the glaze
Classification
Dimensions
4 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (10.5 x 36 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Selden
Accession Number
78.81
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