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A bowl/bowl with two peacocks facing each other
(وعاء زبدية ذات طاووسين متواجهين)

Title	A bowl/bowl with two peacocks facing each other
Title Original	وعاء زبدية ذات طاووسين متواجهين
Publication Date:	Mid-fourth century AH / second-third quarter of the tenth century AD
Publication Place	- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject	Pottery bowl, painted blue on opaque white glaze
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 9.5 سم ، القطر : 30.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	64.134
Record ID	object;EPM;us;Mus23;34;ar
Library Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date	Mid-fourth century AH / second-third quarter of the tenth century AD
Notes	Birds were a popular subject in the Abbasid period, as artists working in a variety of mediums transformed the beaks and wings of creatures into increasingly abstract designs. The symmetrical motif of two peacocks facing each other finds iconographic precedents in examples dating back to ancient times and Byzantine times, where they often had paradisiacal connotations. Examples of monochromatic luster paint such as these were characteristic of the second phase of Abbasid luster vessels developed in centers in Iraq in the 10th century. The word blessing appears in Arabic on the lower edge. Glazed for this bowl.
Sample Text	“A bowl/bowl with two peacocks facing each other” from Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;34;ar

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A bowl/bowl with two peacocks facing each other

(وعاء زبدية ذات طاووسين متواجهين)

Publication Date Mid-fourth century AH / second-third quarter of the tenth century AD

Publication Place - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Pottery bowl, painted blue on opaque white glaze

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 9.5 سم ، القطر : 30.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 64.134

Record ID object;EPM;us;Mus23;34;ar

Library Location Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date Mid-fourth century AH / second-third quarter of the tenth century AD

Notes Birds were a popular subject in the Abbasid period, as artists working in a variety of mediums transformed the beaks and wings of creatures into increasingly abstract designs. The symmetrical motif of two peacocks facing each other finds iconographic precedents in examples dating back to ancient times and Byzantine times, where they often had paradisiacal connotations. Examples of monochromatic luster paint such as these were characteristic of the second phase of Abbasid luster vessels developed in centers in Iraq in the 10th century. The word blessing appears in Arabic on the lower edge. Glazed for this bowl.

Sample Text “A bowl/bowl with two peacocks facing each other” from Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;34;ar