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Master Mold for a Bowl

Former TitleStorage Jar Cover
CulturePersian
Date12th-13th century
MediumUnglazed earthenware with molded decoration
DimensionsOverall: 2 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (6.67 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-37/14
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 11, case 57, no. F as Cover.

Provenance

With Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969), London and New York, by 1935 [1];

Purchased from Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Time to the Present, vol. 4,  Plates 1-510, Pre-Achaemenid, Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods, Architecture of the Islamic Period (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), viii, 195, fig. A, (repro.).

Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 356.

David Talbot Rice, Islamic Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975), 37-38, fig. 31, (repro.).

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