{"data": {"id": 123967, "accession_number": "1944.476", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Luster Bowl with Antelope, 1000s. Egypt, Fustat (Old Cairo), Fatimid period (909\u20131171). Earthenware with luster-painted design; diameter: 25.4 cm (10 in.); overall: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.476", "current_location": "116 Islamic", "title": "Luster Bowl with Antelope", "creation_date": "1000s", "creation_date_earliest": 1000, "creation_date_latest": 1099, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Fustat (Old Cairo), Fatimid period (909\u20131171)"], "technique": "earthenware with luster-painted design", "support_materials": [], "department": "Islamic Art", "collection": "Islamic Art", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Diameter: 25.4 cm (10 in.); Overall: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.254, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "overall": {"height": 0.068, "height_inch": 2, "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312146, "title": "Islamic Art", "description": "<i>Islamic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).", "opening_date": "1944-11-03T04:00:00"}, {"id": 312068, "title": "For Modern America from the Ancient Near East", "description": "<i>For Modern America from the Ancient Near East</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948).", "opening_date": "1948-02-24T05:00:00"}, {"id": 396857, "title": "Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)", "description": "<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).", "opening_date": "2021-05-21T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>The Arts of Islam</em>. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976).", "opening_date": "1976-04-08T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867\u20131951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131944", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1944\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The luster technique was transmitted by Iraqi potters to the Fatimid court in Cairo.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The production of lusterware flourished in the prosperous Fatimid court in Cairo. The technique used metal oxides to paint designs onto a ceramic vessel. It was expensive and unpredictable but, if done correctly, would create a glistening effect. Fatimid lusterware motifs are quite varied, drawing on Greek and Christian themes, floral and vegetal designs, and a menagerie of animals. Some scenes focus on a single creature, as is the case with the antelope on this dish, while others evoke courtly themes of hunting or banquets.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757889"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1944.476-luster-bowl-with-ant"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cossi\u0301o, Manuel B., and Jose\u0301 Pijoa\u0301n. <em>Summa artis, historia general del arte</em>. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1931.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 138", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cox, Warren E. <em>The Book of Pottery and Porcelain</em>. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 96", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32", "url": "https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n42"}, {"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \u201cTwo Fus\u1e6d\u0101\u1e6d Bowls.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 32, no. 6, 1945, pp. 92, 94\u201395.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 92; Mentioned: pp. 94\u201395", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141214"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 701", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n128"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 210", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n234"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 210", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n234"}, {"citation": "Jones, Dalu and George Michell. <em>The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976</em>. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.", "page_number": "p. 219", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 266", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n286"}, {"citation": "Brett, Michael, and Werner Forman. <em>The Moors: Islam in the West</em>. London: Orbis Pub, 1980.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 29", "url": null}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 24, fig. 26", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.476", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_web.jpg", "width": "992", "height": "893", "filesize": "117030", "filename": "1944.476_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3062", "filesize": "1120484", "filename": "1944.476_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_full.tif", "width": "6320", "height": "5692", "filesize": "107948572", "filename": "1944.476_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "803", "filesize": "66273"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2161", "filesize": "458186"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.476/1944.476_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5872", "height": "3733", "filesize": "65793436"}, "date_created": "2012-08-06T17:25:58", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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