Bowl with a Kufic Inscription
CulturePersian
Date10th century C.E.
MediumSlip-painted Samarkand Ware
DimensionsOverall: 2 15/16 × 9 3/16 inches (7.46 × 23.34 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number53-11
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Exhibition HistoryPersian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 9-May 17, 1959, no. 69 as Bowl.
With Paul Mallon (1884-1975), New York and Paris, by July 1949-1953 [1];
Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
NOTES:
[1] This object was on loan from Mallon to the Nelson-Atkins from July 1949 until its purchase in 1953.
Oleb Grabar, Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1959), 34.
Tsugio Mikami, Islamic Pottery (Tokyo: Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 1962), 25, pl. 165, (repro.).
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