Sweetmeat Dish
NEP14
From: Iran | Rayy
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | NEP14 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cufic |
| Provenience | Iran | Rayy |
| Date Made | 1100-1199 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Glazed |
| Inscription Language | Kufic |
| Description | Adjillchori. Seven cavaties, silicious glaze, brown metallic lustre. Iranian figures in Sasanid dynasty style. Kufic inscription. Sweetmeat dish with seven depressions decorated in brown metallic lustre. The central depression and three others are decorated with an Arabesque motif. The other three contain figures. The inner rim of each depression bears a Persian verse written in stylized cufic script. Ackerman: Gallery IV, Table Case 59, Object B-Sweat-Meat Dish. 12th � 13th Century. In top, seven small hemispherical basins, four filled with arabesques; in each of remaining, seated couple against scrolls in interspaces, larger against smaller scrolls; outside, broad foliation in white on lustre; lustre brownish. Diameter: 14 in. |
| Height | 11 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 35.56 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from H. Kevorkian, 1915 |
| Other Number | Getz 294 - Other Number |
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