Slip-painted bowl with Kufic inscription – unknown

unknown10th century

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Like the graphics artists of today, historic calligraphers played with the Arabic script to make it form patterns. Here the words form a pinwheel with the tall letters "A" and "L" forming spokes. The inscription says: "Eat from it that which is nourishing."

作品介绍

• 标题: Slip-painted bowl with Kufic inscription
• 创作者: unknown
• 日期: 10th century
• 位置: Samarqand, Uzbekistan
• 实际尺寸: h10.9 cm
• 类型: Bowl
• 权利: Royal Ontario Museum
• 材质: Ceramic (earthenware), with manganese-black slip-paint and colourless lead glaze
• Time period: Samanid dynasty
• Accession Number: 961.119.3

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Royal Ontario Museum