Bowl with Splash Motif
Brooklyn Museum photograph
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. This splash-sgraffiato ware bowl probably derives from similar wares made at the cAbbasid capitals of Baghdad and Samarra.
Caption
Bowl with Splash Motif, 10th century. Ceramic; earthenware, painted in splashes of black, brown, green, and yellow pigments on an incised white slip ground under a transparent glaze, 2 3/4 x 9 13/16 in. (7 x 25 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Alastair B. Martin, 72.86.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Bowl with Splash Motif
Date
10th century
Dynasty
Samanid
Period
Samanid Period
Medium
Ceramic; earthenware, painted in splashes of black, brown, green, and yellow pigments on an incised white slip ground under a transparent glaze
Classification
Dimensions
2 3/4 x 9 13/16 in. (7 x 25 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Alastair B. Martin
Accession Number
72.86.2
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