id: 135708 accession number: 1959.249 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.249 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:46.425000 Nishapur Figural Bowl, 900s. Iran, Nishapur, Samanid period (819–1005). Earthenware with underglaze decoration; overall: 8 x 35.6 cm (3 1/8 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.249 title: Nishapur Figural Bowl title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Nishapur, Samanid period (819–1005) technique: Earthenware with underglaze decoration department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 8 x 35.6 cm (3 1/8 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Iranian Ceramics opening date: 1963-10-02T04:00:00 Iranian Ceramics. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 2-December 15, 1963). title: Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2021-05-21T04:00:00 Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1959 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1959- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 210–231. page number: Reproduced: p. 214; Mentioned: p. 230 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142366 Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Bacchantes in Islam.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 3 (March 1960): 42–49. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cover, pp. 42–49 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142384 “Annual Report for the Year 1959.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 6 (June 1960): 111–158. page number: Mentioned: p. 134 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142399 Wilkinson, Charles Kyrle. Iranian Ceramics: [Catalogue of an Exhibition]. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 22, p. 123 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 211 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n235 Grube, Ernst J. The World of Islam. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 21, fig. 6 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 211 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n235 Atil, Esin. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Freer Gallery of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, vol. III. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1973. page number: Comparative Material Reproduced: no. 6 url: Zick-nessen. Johanna. "Figuren Mittelalterlich-Orientalischen Keramikschalen un die 'Sphaera Barbarica.'" Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran N.F. Bd. 8 (1975), pp. 217–240. page number: Reproduced: pl. 50, no. 3 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 267 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n287 Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 21, fig. 23 url: Soustiel, Jean, Charles Kiefer, and Henry Pierre Fourest. La céramique islamique: le guide du connaisseur. Paris: Office du Livre, Éditions Vilo, 1985. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 62, no. 44 url: Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. page number: Reproduced: fig. 111 url: Baer, Eva. The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Inheritances and Islamic Transformations. Bibliotheca Iranica 11. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2004. page number: Reproduced: fig. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.249/1959.249_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.249/1959.249_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.249/1959.249_full.tif