Blue-and-Black Glazed Dish with Arabesque Motifs
Unknown Artist
A dark-blue dish has a shallow open center and sits on a short, glazed foot. Inside the dish are black and white arabesque spirals and cusped medallions that join at center to form a cruciform motif. The black motifs are of undulating form enhanced by small white geometric patterns along the edges. Similar patterning is featured on the reverse.
Period: Seljuq Successor States
Culture: Iran (Kashan)
Object No: 48.409
13th century
Ceramic/Glazed stone-paste, underglaze-painted and overglaze painted white
9.5 x 2.188 in
48.409
Images and text courtesy of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
Where you'll find this
Shangri La Museum
Permanent collection