Bowl with Birds
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Object Label
Within one hundred fifty years of the cAbbasid Dynasty's conquest of Iran, semiautonomous dynasties had consolidated their power on the fringes of the empire. One such dynasty, the Samanids, gained ascendancy in Uzbekistan and Turkestan in the ninth century, spreading their influence to Khurasan in the tenth century. Excavations at Nishapur in Khurasan and Afrasiyab near Samarkand in Uzbekistan have unearthed a range of highly distinctive ceramics.
Caption
Bowl with Birds, 10th century. Ceramic; earthenware, painted in black slip and green and yellow pigments under a transparent glaze, 3 1/4 x 8 1/2in. (8.3 x 21.6cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Bowl with Birds
Date
10th century
Dynasty
Samanid
Medium
Ceramic; earthenware, painted in black slip and green and yellow pigments under a transparent glaze
Classification
Dimensions
3 1/4 x 8 1/2in. (8.3 x 21.6cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
86.227.3
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