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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Iranian (Persian); Nishapur
Title:Dish
Date Made:9th-10th century Samanid
Type:Container
Materials:earthenware with white engobe, slip-painted and glazed
Place Made:Iran
Measurements:4 x 10 1/4 in. diameter; 10.16 x 26.035 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1978.56.86
Credit Line:Gift of the estate of Mrs. Sigmund W. Kunstadter (Maxine Weil, class of 1924)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
islamic; white plate with dark brown script and a small brown pattern around th edge

Label Text:
This dish represents the group known as the "epigraphic ware" for its decorative emphasis on stylized inscriptions. The close-knit inscription repeats the Arabic Alkaraka, or blessing. Characteristic of this group is the sophisticated visual balance between solid and void, the brownish thick band of inscription, and the other decorative motifs of the saw tooth pattern at the rim and the long-beaked stylized bird at the center against a white surface.

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