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Plate with Inscriptions and Cloud Motifs
(Islamic World )
This plate is one of a few rare dated ceramics from the Timurid period. Scientific testing of its fabric demonstrates that it came from Nishapur, a town in northeastern Iran that flourished as a ceramic-manufacturing center in the 9th-12th centuries and that is now recognized-partly on the basis of the evidence provided by our plate-to have remained active in pottery production during subsequent periods.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1998-2001 | Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/5/1953 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 3/10/1983 | Technical Report | infrared spectroscopy |
| 4/30/1991 | Treatment | cleaned; other |
| 10/20/1997 | Treatment | coated; loss compensation |
| 6/19/2018 | Treatment | inpainted |
| 6/19/2018 | Treatment | Inpainting on a rim fill darkened with age and was adjusted to match the surrounding glaze. |
Geographies
Iran (Nishapur) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 × Diam: 14 3/4 in. (7.6 × 37.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.1031