{"data": {"id": 124071, "accession_number": "1944.74", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Luster Dish with Polo Player, 1170\u20131200. Iran, Seljuq period (1037\u20131194). Fritware with luster-painted design; overall: 7.2 x 35.5 cm (2 13/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.74", "current_location": "234 Textile Gallery", "title": "Luster Dish with Polo Player", "creation_date": "1170\u20131200", "creation_date_earliest": 1170, "creation_date_latest": 1200, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Iran, Seljuq period (1037\u20131194)"], "technique": "fritware with luster-painted design", "support_materials": [], "department": "Islamic Art", "collection": "Islamic Art", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 7.2 x 35.5 cm (2 13/16 x 14 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.072, "height_inch": 2, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.355, "width_inch": 14, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"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": 520298, "title": "Iranian Ceramics", "description": "<i>Iranian Ceramics</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 2-December 15, 1963).", "opening_date": "1963-10-02T04:00:00"}, {"id": 688299, "title": "American Printed Silks, 1927\u20131947", "description": "<i>American Printed Silks, 1927\u20131947</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 2025-November 8, 2026).", "opening_date": "2025-11-09T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "V. Everit Macy Sr. [1871\u20131930], New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->V[alentine] Everit Macy Sr. was an American industrialist and philanthropist and was involved in local government in Westchester County, New York.</div>"], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131944", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1944\u2013", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Where fine clay was unavailable, potters made a paste out of ground quartz, clay, and glass. When fired, the paste created a compact white material called <em>fritware</em> that approximated the appearance of porcelain.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Luster potters migrated to the city of Kashan in Iran where luster ware reached its greatest height during the 1170s until about 1220. This masterful dish features a mounted polo player, a figure representing the Iranian ideal of beauty with a round moon-like face and fine features.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757043"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1944.74-luster-dish-with-pol"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Dimand, Maurice Sven. <em>Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI</em>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 52, p. 13; Reproduced: no. 52 [unpaginated]", "url": null}, {"citation": "Dimand, Maurice Sven. <em>Loan Exhibition of Ceramic Art of the Near East, New York, May 12 to June 28, MCMXXXI</em>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 52, p. 13", "url": null}, {"citation": "Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. <em>A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present</em>. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. V, pI. 633B [unpaginated]", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \u201cTwo near Eastern Lustered Bowls.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 9 (November 1944): 158\u2013163 and inside cover.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 158\u2013160; Reproduced: p. 163", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141158"}, {"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"A Luster Bowl from Gurgan.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 9 (November 1957): 196\u2013197.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 197", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142239"}, {"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. 25, fig. 27", "url": null}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (October 1985): 326\u2013359.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 347, fig. 42", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"}, {"citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann.<em> Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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