Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Bowl with Enthroned Ruler and Courtiers
View through Harvard Museums
An enthroned ruler with attendants occupies the center of this bowl. Pairs of birds are positioned above and below the group. On the walls of the vessel, encircling the central scene, are seated figures, also in pairs (the single individual results from a modern repair with an alien sherd). The interior rim of the bowl is decorated with a repeating pseudo-inscription in Kufic script, and the plain white walls of the exterior with a cursive inscription, large portions of which are overpainted restoration. The bowl has been assembled from several fragments, with painted plaster used to fill in the losses.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Hadji Baba Rabbi House of Antiquities Teheran 1974] sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Belmont MA (1974-2002) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Title: Bowl with Enthroned Ruler and Courtiers
Description:
An enthroned ruler with attendants occupies the center of this bowl.
Pairs of birds are positioned above and below the group.
On the walls of the vessel, encircling the central scene, are seated figures, also in pairs (the single individual results from a modern repair with an alien sherd).
The interior rim of the bowl is decorated with a repeating pseudo-inscription in Kufic script, and the plain white walls of the exterior with a cursive inscription, large portions of which are overpainted restoration.
The bowl has been assembled from several fragments, with painted plaster used to fill in the losses.
Related Results
Small Tea Bowl with Rounded Sides and Russet Hare's Fur Markings
Small Tea Bowl with Rounded Sides and Russet Hare's Fur Markings
This small tea bowl has rounded sides that rise from its small, circular footring to its circular lip, which is subtly indented just below the top. The bowl's walls are relatively ...
Tea Bowl with Russet Hare's Fur Markings
Tea Bowl with Russet Hare's Fur Markings
The small, circular foot and lightly indented, vertical lip of this large yankou wan, or funnel-shaped bowl, are connected by steeply sloping walls that show a well defined, angula...
Small Covered Bowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze
Small Covered Bowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze
This two-piece set includes a U-shaped bowl and a flat cover with a tiny, pierced, strap handle at the indented heart of the cover's lightly swollen center. The bowl's thin walls e...
Table Plateau
Table Plateau
BORDSPLATY Consisting of a bottom plate (plateau) with a mirror glass, two flower bowls with artificial bouquets, two fruit bowls with glass bowls, six confectionery bowls with gla...
Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Silvery-Brown Hare's-Fur Markings
Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Silvery-Brown Hare's-Fur Markings
The walls of this large yankou wan, or funnel-shaped, tea bowl expand from the small, circular foot, beginning their steep ascent to the lightly indented, vertical lip at an angle ...
Ruler and His Court watching a Nautch Dancer and Musicians
Ruler and His Court watching a Nautch Dancer and Musicians
The drawing depicts an enthroned ruler at the top center of the image under an awning. He wears a turban with ornaments that signify his royal status and has a large, black shield ...
Shallow Circular Bowl with Floral Decor
Shallow Circular Bowl with Floral Decor
The walls of this shallow, circular bowl extend laterally from the circular footring (to form the vessel floor), then rise vertically to the mouth rim. The piece is fully glazed in...
Small Bowl of "Gambroon ware"
Small Bowl of "Gambroon ware"
With its exceptionally thin potting and near-translucent, pure white fabric, this small bowl belongs to a category of fine ceramics popularly known as “Gombroon wares.” The bowl ha...