Bowl with peacock

Samanid period

10th–early 11th century

Object Place: Possibly Khurasan, Iran

Medium/Technique Earthenware with dark brown decoration on buff slip under transparent glaze

Dimensions Height x diameter: 9.5 x 31.8 cm (3 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Keith McLeod Fund

Accession Number65.1277

ClassificationsCeramics

Provenance1965, sold by Nasli Heeramaneck (b. 1902 - d. 1971), New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 13, 1965)