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Plate with birds
16th–17th century
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with blue under transparent glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 6 × 34.5 cm (2 3/8 × 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1171
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsIslamic Art, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionWheel-turned body; wide shallow foot ring, slightly flared lip. Design outlined in blue and colored with brushy cobalt blue. Interior: double compass lines encircling the rim and well; well decorated with two birds standing on rocks, surrounded by vine fruit; sprouting plants and looping circular forms in the cavetto. Exterior: divided into seven sections by thin blue lines, each containing an irregular rectilinear cartouche
ProvenanceLent by Miss Theodora Lyman, March 1, 1915. The John Pickering Lyman Collection.