Bowl

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Bowl

Egypt or Syria, 15th century
Ceramics
Fritware, underglaze-painted
5 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (13.33 x 33.97 cm)
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2002.1.66)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Trade encouraged the diffusion of artistic styles and techniques throughout the Islamic empire in the late medieval period....
Trade encouraged the diffusion of artistic styles and techniques throughout the Islamic empire in the late medieval period. One example is the spread of "Sultanabad-style" ceramics, named for a region of Iran where they were found, from Iran to Syria and Egypt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This bowl is decorated in a particular and oft-repeated manner in which the surface is divided into alternating panels filled with patterns such as lines, flowers, and scrolls (see the related jar, M.2002.1.55).
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Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
  • Atil, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
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