Bowl15th century

Not on view

Title: Bowl
Place Made: Egypt or Syria
Date Made: 15th century
Medium: Fritware, underglaze-painted
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (13.33 x 33.97 cm)
Credit Line: The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2002.1.66
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes: 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).
Selected 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.