Iran, Nishapur, Khorasan region
10th century
Earthenware with slip and manganese painted decoration
Diameter 8 in (20.3 cm), Height 3 1/2 in (8.9 cm)
Provenance: Professors Abe and Paula Rosman, New York
Nishapur in northeastern Iran was one of the principal centers of early Islamic ceramic production, and Sari Ware represents a distinctive regional output characterized by bold painted designs in dark manganese and red slip on a buff earthenware body. This dish displays a large bird rendered in confident, gestural brushwork surrounded by foliate scrolls and abstract vegetal ornament, a decorative vocabulary common to Nishapur workshops of the 10th century. The bird motif carried auspicious associations in early Islamic visual culture and appears frequently on ceramics produced for prosperous urban households in the Samanid period.
The painting is applied with assured economy, with the bird's form built from broad fluid strokes that give the design a sense of movement across the wide shallow bowl. The interior base carries a small floral rosette at center, a standard compositional feature of Nishapur Sari Ware dishes of this type. The piece comes from the collection of Professors Abe and Paula Rosman of New York, reflecting the sustained scholarly interest in early Islamic ceramics among American academic collectors of the 20th century.
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Iran, Nishapur, Khorasan region
10th century
Earthenware with slip and manganese painted decoration
Diameter 8 in (20.3 cm), Height 3 1/2 in (8.9 cm)
Provenance: Professors Abe and Paula Rosman, New York
Nishapur in northeastern Iran was one of the principal centers of early Islamic ceramic production, and Sari Ware represents a distinctive regional output characterized by bold painted designs in dark manganese and red slip on a buff earthenware body. This dish displays a large bird rendered in confident, gestural brushwork surrounded by foliate scrolls and abstract vegetal ornament, a decorative vocabulary common to Nishapur workshops of the 10th century. The bird motif carried auspicious associations in early Islamic visual culture and appears frequently on ceramics produced for prosperous urban households in the Samanid period.
The painting is applied with assured economy, with the bird's form built from broad fluid strokes that give the design a sense of movement across the wide shallow bowl. The interior base carries a small floral rosette at center, a standard compositional feature of Nishapur Sari Ware dishes of this type. The piece comes from the collection of Professors Abe and Paula Rosman of New York, reflecting the sustained scholarly interest in early Islamic ceramics among American academic collectors of the 20th century.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
