About the Artwork
Ewer with Rooster Head
ca.1200
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Iranian
Islamic
Under-glaze slip-painted fritware
Overall: 10 3/4 × 6 3/4 × 6 inches (27.3 × 17.1 × 15.2 cm)
Ceramics
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, Henry Ford II Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund
1989.34
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
[Naskhi inscriptions around the neck and base]
Provenance
(Said Motamed, Frankfurt, Germany)
1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 2/3, 1989, p. 9, fig. 6, (ill).
Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 123 (ill.)
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Islamic, Iranian, Ewer with Rooster Head, ca.1200, under-glaze slip-painted fritware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, Henry Ford II Fund, et al., 1989.34.
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