id:			133598
accession number:	1956.225
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.225
updated:		2025-11-08 12:37:16.220000

Bowl, 900s. Iran, Nishapur, Samanid Period, 10th Century. Earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration; overall: 11.5 x 28 cm (4 1/2 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1956.225

title:				Bowl
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series:				
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creation date:			900s
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		999
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Iran, Nishapur, Samanid Period, 10th Century
technique:	earthenware with underglaze slip-painted decoration
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 11.5 x 28 cm (4 1/2 x 11 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Two horizontal ornamental motifs at center may be derived from Arabic baraka (blessing), written retrograde.
	translation:	
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1956
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1956–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 696
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n127

	Milliken, William M. “Early Byzantine Silver.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 45, no. 3 (March 1958): 35–94.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [unpaginated]
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Bacchantes in Islam.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 47, no. 3 (March 1960): 43–49.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 3, p. 45
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142384

	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

	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

	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

	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. 22, fig. 24
	url:		

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IMAGES

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