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Luster Bowl with Man Holding a Banner
900s
- Medium
- earthenware with luster-painted design
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.); Overall: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq, probably Baghdad, Abbasid Period
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This golden bowl displays a man holding a staff with a banner surmounted by a ball, crescent, and long streamer. He is flanked by two peacocks, one holding a palmette in his beak.
