Two Buff Ware Fragments with Animal Decoration

Two Buff Ware Fragments with Animal Decoration

Two Buff Ware Fragments with Animal Decoration. Dimensions: W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm) L. 4 in. (10.2 cm). Date: 9th century. The buff clay fabric used to make this vessel forms the background to an overall decoration of animals, including birds and horned and spotted quadrupeds. Interspersed between them are small geometric motifs. None of these features seems to carry a meaning; they were simply a design innovation of the Nishapur potters.

Earthenware; polychrome decoration under transparent glaze (buff ware)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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4200 x 3813 px | 45.8 MB

35.6 x 32.3 cm | 14.0 x 12.7 in (300 dpi)