Bowl Depicting a Bird and Flowers
Place made:Iran
Culture: Iranian
Date: 11th century
Dimensions:
h. 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm); diam.: 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Object number: 2006.6.1
Provenance: sold, Claude Boisgirard Arts d'Orient et d'Asie, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 20, 1996, lot 9, to Walter F. Brown (1930-2014) and Lenora Brown (1933-2020), San Antonio; Lenora Brown and Walter F. Brown, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2006
Label Text
This bowl is an example of a style produced in northern Iran and known as Sari ware, after a town on the Caspian Sea. The colorful stylized bird and "lollipop" flowers are typical of the decoration on Sari-ware pottery. (J. Powers & J. Johnston, 2009)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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