- Title
- Bowl
- Date Made
- 10th century
- Medium
- Earthenware, overglaze luster-painted
- Dimensions
- 1 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (4.45 x 13.02 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.5.272
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
Similar to the use of a rabbit’s foot today, the hare was a symbol of good luck in the medieval Islamic world, particularly in Fatimid-controlled Egypt and Syria. The animal is depicted on many objects from the period, including this luster bowl, where its presence was meant to bring good fortune and perhaps protection to the object’s owner.
- Selected Bibliography
- Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Beate Fricke. Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
