Permanent collection
Bowl with Calligraphy in Kufic Script
- Year
- 950
- Medium
- Underglaze-painted earthenware
- Accession
- PO.701.2007
- Status
- On display
An earthenware bowl painted under the glaze with calligraphy in Kufic script, made in Iran or Central Asia in the Samanid period, circa 9th–10th century CE (3rd–4th century AH). Epigraphic bowls of this kind are among the best-known products of the Samanid era, one of the two Islamic renaissances in the lands of Uzbekistan that the exhibition Uzbekistan: Heritage in Motion highlights. Accession number PO.701.2007.