Dish with Falcon Attacking a Water Bird
1100s
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Dish with Falcon Attacking a Water Bird, 1100s. Syria, possibly Tell Minis, Zangid (1127–1251) or Ayyubid period (1171–1260). Fritware with carved decoration and underglaze design, Lakabi ware; overall: 8.3 x 40 cm (3 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.7 Sanctioned by the Qur'an (5:4-6), falconry was for many centuries a favorite sport of Muslim rulers.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Fritware with carved decoration and underglaze design, Lakabi ware
- Medium
- fritware, carved, decoration, underglaze, design, lakabi, ware
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8.3 x 40 cm (3 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1938.7
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- For Modern America from the Ancient Near East, Persian Decorative Art, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 116 Islamic
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