Kashan kilns
Bowl Decorated with Waterweeds and Cross Design
1200-1232
Physical Qualities
Fritware with white slip, and underglaze blue and black decoration, 4 1/4 H x 8 Diam. in. (10.8 x 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen in Memory of Adelyn D. Breeskin
Object Number
2013.201
The waterweed motif was popular for a short period of time in early 13th-century Iran, for both domestic and export ceramics.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013 (on extended loan from 1957); Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, NJ; Richard S. Ettinghausen
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art Across Asia: West Asian Connections," July 19, 2017-October 19, 2019
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
On View at the BMA
