Gold glaze sgraffito bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 232
- Date
- Probably fifteenth century AD, Islamic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uninv. PN 30/vi/63 (IP 51)
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Sgraffito Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W220 / S350 - S355 *90.50 - 90.00
- Description
- Fragments of base, side and rim of gold glazed sgraffito bowl; of which only center parts are displayed in this Exhibition. Body of porous, red earthenware slipped white on the interior. Slip incised with pattern of large bud-like forms or abstract leaves, probably four in number, radiating out from center of bowl. Interior of bowl glazed gold. Exterior neither slipped nor glazed. Diameter of foot 7.2 cm, sherd measures 10.4 x 9.8 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, sector PN.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- H. Crane, unpublished catalog of Islamic pottery at Sardis (1975), no. IP 51.
- Author
- CHG