Ceramic dish with deer, phoenix, and lotus blossoms
1300–1350
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Ceramic dish with deer, phoenix, and lotus blossoms, 1300–1350. Iran, probably Sultanabad, Ilkhanid period (1256–1353). Fritware with underglaze-painted design, Sultanabad ware; overall: 7 x 32.6 cm (2 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1924.742 Fritware is made of ground quartz, glass frit (partially fused glass), and a small proportion of fine white clay to approximate the light color and weight of Chinese porcelain.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Fritware with underglaze-painted design, Sultanabad ware
- Medium
- fritware, underglaze-painted, design, sultanabad, ware
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7 x 32.6 cm (2 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1924.742
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- East-West in Art, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation), <em>East-West in Art</em>. Museum of Art of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 31, 1966).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 116 Islamic
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