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Bowl with base
(زبدية ذات قاعدة)

Title	Bowl with base
Title Original	زبدية ذات قاعدة
Publication Date:	Mid-eighth century / mid-fourteenth century
Publication Place	- Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS
Subject	Red incised pottery (sgraffito) with white glaze and yellow glaze.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: 13.4 سم؛ القطر: 21 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	A. 1981.112
Record ID	object;ISL;uk;Mus03;17;ar
Library Location	Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS
Date	Mid-eighth century / mid-fourteenth century
Notes	A round, fluted pottery bowl with sloping sides that flare out, a lip without a rim, and a wide base supported on a sloping leg. The inside of the bowl, just below the lip, shows fishes alternating with brief inscriptions in thuluth script. A band with scrollwork decoration appears on the outside under the lip, and below it, above the base, is a frieze of semi-scriptic decoration. This bowl is considered a typical example of sgraffito pottery produced in Mamluk Cairo. It is a type of ordinary pottery for daily use, with a reddish body covered with a white glaze with sgraffito decorations under a yellow and sometimes green glaze. Other elements of the composition, particularly epigraphic details and logos, are emphasized in brown glaze, mirroring, at least in theory, the metallic inlay on contemporary brass vessels. This type of piece has been attributed to a contemporary potter named Sharaf Al-Abwani.
Sample Text	Ulrike Al-Khamis “Bowl with base” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;uk;Mus03;17;ar

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Bowl with base

(زبدية ذات قاعدة)

Publication Date Mid-eighth century / mid-fourteenth century

Publication Place - Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS

Subject Red incised pottery (sgraffito) with white glaze and yellow glaze.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: 13.4 سم؛ القطر: 21 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID A. 1981.112

Record ID object;ISL;uk;Mus03;17;ar

Library Location Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS

Date Mid-eighth century / mid-fourteenth century

Notes A round, fluted pottery bowl with sloping sides that flare out, a lip without a rim, and a wide base supported on a sloping leg. The inside of the bowl, just below the lip, shows fishes alternating with brief inscriptions in thuluth script. A band with scrollwork decoration appears on the outside under the lip, and below it, above the base, is a frieze of semi-scriptic decoration. This bowl is considered a typical example of sgraffito pottery produced in Mamluk Cairo. It is a type of ordinary pottery for daily use, with a reddish body covered with a white glaze with sgraffito decorations under a yellow and sometimes green glaze. Other elements of the composition, particularly epigraphic details and logos, are emphasized in brown glaze, mirroring, at least in theory, the metallic inlay on contemporary brass vessels. This type of piece has been attributed to a contemporary potter named Sharaf Al-Abwani.

Sample Text Ulrike Al-Khamis “Bowl with base” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;uk;Mus03;17;ar