Footed Bowl
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Vegetal motifs drawing upon Byzantine and Sasanian forms developed in the arts of the Umayyad and early Abbasid period in the territories, once the southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire. Based on these traditions, the abstract forms and styles of ornament that subsequently developed at the Abbasid capital at Samarra would have a profound impact on the art and architecture of the Islamic world.
Palmettes and inverted flowers decorate the straight sides of the bowl. The shape is based on metal incense burners used in the eastern Mediterranean from the late Roman and Byzantine periods into the Islamic era.
Palmettes and inverted flowers decorate the straight sides of the bowl. The shape is based on metal incense burners used in the eastern Mediterranean from the late Roman and Byzantine periods into the Islamic era.
Artwork Details
- Title: Footed Bowl
- Date: 8th century
- Geography: Made in Iran, Iraq, or Syria
- Medium: Ceramic, earthenware; molded with applied decoration and glazed
- Dimensions: H: 3 in (7.62 cm); diam: 5 1/5 in. (13.02 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2002.1.134)
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters