Bowl, Abbasid dynasty, early Islamic Samarra type, shallow, with rounded sides and flattened, outturned rim. Greyish pottery with opaque greyish white glaze painted in dark blue with a formal design consisting of an eight-petaled opaque flower within a diamond, which is within a square, the four corners of which are held out by an opaque three-pronged design with a long leaf. Low foot. Rey excavation. Broken and mended.

Bowl with diamond, floral, and vegetal design, 9th century

Unknown artist, expand_more
On View in Gallery 243expand_more

These rare bowls typify those that apparently were made primarily in Iraq during the first Abbasid period of the ninth and tenth centuries. They are important early examples of ceramics decorated with cobalt-blue oxide, a Middle Eastern invention. During the period of Mongol rule in the fourteenth century, technically superior Chinese blue-and-white ware began to be exported to the Middle East, where it gained immediate popularity among the Muslim upper classes and influenced Middle Eastern styles for centuries to come.

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Bowl with diamond, floral, and vegetal design
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32.32.3
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Bowl, Abbasid dynasty, early Islamic Samarra type, shallow, with rounded sides and flattened, outturned rim. Greyish pottery with opaque greyish white glaze painted in dark blue with a formal design consisting of an eight-petaled opaque flower within a diamond, which is within a square, the four corners of which are held out by an opaque three-pronged design with a long leaf. Low foot. Rey excavation. Broken and mended.