Female Head with Floral Headdress

Description Conservation Provenance Credit

Description This piece is decorated with a gold-olive lustre on white. It may have served as the top of a large vase or water vessel.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/18/1960	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance [Found at Rhadjes]; Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914

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Creator

Iranian (Artist)

Period

12th century (Medieval)

Medium

fritware with luster decoration
(Ceramics)

Accession Number

48.1192

Measurements

H: 5 7/8 × W: 4 5/8 × D: 3 in. (15 × 11.8 × 7.6 cm); A (Head) H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 1/8 × D: 3 in. (14.7 × 10.4 × 7.6 cm); B (Stand) H: 1 9/16 × W: 4 5/8 × D: 2 1/16 in. (3.9 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm)

Geographies

Iran, Kashan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View