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Bowl with Standing Figure Holding a Bottle
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This small bowl, reconstructed from about ten fragments, depicts a standing female figure. Half of her head, starting at the widow’s peak, and the top portion of the implement in her raised hand are now plaster fill. The woman has long, wavy hair and wears earrings and tiraz armbands. She carries a globular bottle, which again signals the courtly enjoyment of intoxicating beverages. Leaves of elongated teardrop form and a field of V-shaped marks fill the space around her. The luster decoration on the exterior consists of concentric circles amid dots and dashes. The bottom of the foot is glazed and marked with four dabs of luster.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Mansour Gallery London 1975] sold; to Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Belmont MA (1975-2002) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Title: Bowl with Standing Figure Holding a Bottle
Description:
This small bowl, reconstructed from about ten fragments, depicts a standing female figure.
Half of her head, starting at the widow’s peak, and the top portion of the implement in her raised hand are now plaster fill.
The woman has long, wavy hair and wears earrings and tiraz armbands.
She carries a globular bottle, which again signals the courtly enjoyment of intoxicating beverages.
Leaves of elongated teardrop form and a field of V-shaped marks fill the space around her.
The luster decoration on the exterior consists of concentric circles amid dots and dashes.
The bottom of the foot is glazed and marked with four dabs of luster.
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