Bowl with Calligraphic design, 10th-11th century
Unknown artist, Uzbekistanexpand_more
Earthenware with a white slip ground under a clear glaze with reddish and brown slip-painted decorexpand_more
The Katherine Kittredge McMillan Memorial Fundexpand_more 2002.89.2
On View in Gallery 243expand_more
One of the great innovations of Samanid dynasty (819-1005 CE) potters was the use of various slip (diluted clay) pigments on a single vessel, seen in the brown, red, and cream-white hues above. While lacking glass, lead or metallic based glazes and the luster-effect they produced, Samanid potters were especially adept in layering these earth tones in precise and well-balanced patterns. The decorative vocabulary included interlocking geometric and scrolling vegetal motifs, as well as the use of angular script known as Kufic, often abstracted for a pleasing aesthetic effect.
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- Bowl with Calligraphic design
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- Artist
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- 2002.89.2
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