id:			144668
accession number:	1969.291
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.291
updated:		2019-06-05 09:11:01.510000

Bath Pail (satl), c. 1580-1610. Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period, late 16th-early 17th century. Cast brass, turned, engraved, inlaid with black compound (niello); overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); diameter of base: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); diameter of rim: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. 1969.291

title:				Bath Pail (satl)
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creation date:			c. 1580-1610
creation date earliest:		1580
creation date latest:		1610
current location:		116 Islamic
creditline:			Gift of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.
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culture:	Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period, late 16th-early 17th century
technique:	cast brass, turned, engraved, inlaid with black compound (niello)
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); Diameter of base: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Upper band:  
At the breath of dawn [my Beloved] came from her house toward the Bath,
A thousand hearts became dust on the road beneath her steps.
From seeing Your face, the bath-house day and night
[Has] a thousand colored eyes on the door and ceiling.
As soon as my Moon [-faced Beloved] comes into the Bath,
My eye becomes this bathing cup, and by eyebrow its handle.

Lower band:
I remember an old master saying in the Bathhouse:
One day a young person asked of an old man:
"What is the secret that makes anyone who sets foot in the bathhouse,
Find his saddened heart opened up to joy?"
He said:  "The secret is that the bather has nothing of the trappings of this world
But a bathing-bowl and towel -- and even those belong to others.
Persian verses about Bathing
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	de Rothschild collection, Paris
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	de Rothschild collection, Paris
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wall description: 
This pail was made to carry traditional bathing equipment such as combs and a friction glove to the
public bath, or hamman. Intended for the faithful’s purification, the hamman was also a meeting place
and a center of social life as well as a popular theme with Iranian poets. The poem in the upper band of
this pail employs bath imagery to express the Lover’s longing to see the Beloved. In the lower bands, verses by the celebrated poet Jami (died 1492) liken the sense of well-being induced by a visit to the bath to the elation experienced through ascetic detachment.
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