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Serving Dish for Sweetmeats

Iranian (Artist)
12th century (Medieval)
fritware ceramic with luster decoration
(Islamic World )

This dish is decorated with a golden lustre on a white glaze, and has one turquoise spot. The body is very hard and white. The dish features roundels filled alternately with birds and arabesques. With its seven compartments the dish was used to serve a variety of confections or other foods.

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.

Arthur Sambon, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
4/18/1960 Treatment cleaned
8/1/2001 Treatment cleaned
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Geographies

Iran, Kashan (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 3 3/8 x Diam: 13 3/8 in. (8.5 x 33.9 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930

Location in Museum

Centre Street: Fourth Floor: Across Asia - Arts of Asia and the Islamic World

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

48.1011

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