Title: Broad-rimmed Dish with Splashed Decoration
Date: 10th century AD
Location: Nishapur, Iran
Materials: earthenware, with a thin opacified glaze and in-glaze staining in bluish-green and manganese purple
Dimensions: 5 x 34cm
Accession Number: POT 848
Other Notes:
When using opaque glazes, there is no easy way to prevent decoration in other colours from running. This could be exploited to decorative effect: here, the fuzzy contours of the inscription, which appears to read ‘abduhu (‘His [God’s] servant’), give the impression that it has been written with a brush rather than a pen, while the green patches at the rim drip down in a deliberately haphazard manner, which also imitates the drip-and-splash decoration of Tang stonewares.
Bibliography:
E.J. Grube et al, Cobalt and Lustre. The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery, The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume IX, London 1994, cat.38, pp.50–51.
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.25, p.48.
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