Bowl with Birds in the Brooklyn Museum, March 2010

Bowl

Within one hundred fifty years of the 'Abbasid Dynasty's conquest of Iran, semiautonomous dynasties had consolidated their power on the fringes of the empire. One such dynasty, the Samanids, gained ascendancy in Uzbekistan and Turkestan in the ninth century, spreading their influence to Khurasan in the tenth century. Excavations at Nishapur in Khurasan and Afrasiyab near Samarkand in Uzbekistan have unearthed a range of highly distinctive ceramics.

Medium: Ceramic, white engobe, brown, yellow, and green slip, transparent colorless glaze

Dates: 10th century

Dynasty: Samanid

Dimensions: 3 1/4 x 8 1/2in. (8.3 x 21.6cm)

Collections: Arts of the Islamic World

Museum Location: This item is on view in Arts of the Islamic World, 2nd Floor

Accession Number: 86.227.3

Credit Line: Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.

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