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"tombstone": "Luster Dish with Seated Prince, 1170\u20131220. Iran, Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037\u20131194). Fritware with luster-painted design; overall: 7.5 x 39 cm (2 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1951.289",
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"title": "Luster Dish with Seated Prince",
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"department": "Islamic Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 7.5 x 39 cm (2 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.)",
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"id": 396857,
"title": "Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)",
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"did_you_know": "Around the dish's edge is a frieze of birds against an arabesque field.",
"description": "Along with Basra in Iraq and Fustat (Old Cairo) in Egypt, Kashan served as a hub of Islamic ceramic production in northern Iran. This dish was likely produced in one of its workshops and is admired for its rare blue glaze design on a luster ground. Rulers and other court officials are commonly depicted on lusterware of this period.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"A Luster Bowl from Gurgan.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 9 (November 1957): 196\u2013197.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 197",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 211",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n235"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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