Bowl

National Museum of Qatar

Currently on view at National Museum of Qatar

Title:: Bowl

Production place:: Iran
Date:: 805 - 885
Period:: 9th century CE

Material:: Ceramic, Glaze
Technique:: Throwing
Dimensions:: 53 mm
Diameter:: 170 mm

This small open bowl was intended to serve food. The glaze and decoration remain only on the outside, with alternating vertically painted lines in red and yellow running from the lip to the foot. The glaze above the painted decoration is transparent. This particular combination of colours and patterns suggest that this bowl was a product of a workshop in Susa (Iran) or Samarra or Basra (Iraq).